the anti-Jack

"we used to outsource this stuff." Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson's character in the current $78M juggernaut Taken) tells his criminal captive, before torturing him. this is the kind of Jack Bauer stuff the right-wingers loved and championed especially after 9/11. and Mills would make Bauer proud, leaving a trail of broken bodies and carnage through Paris (take that, you French pussies - oh wait, Luc Besson co-wrote the screenplay). but then Mills has a personal mission: to retrieve his daughter kidnapped by sex traffickers. and that's where he parts ways with dear old Jack - the latter increasingly needs a mission, the mission to have a sense of purpose. Mills gave that career up to re-bond with his estranged daughter, and in one unfortunate series of events, he's back doing what he does best (at this point, even the liberals cheered). Jack can always start having a life, but then maybe he's been that unlucky. Mills can't afford not to have a life, which is why he does what he has to do. may we all do the same under similar circumstances.