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Taken

2008
24,220 feet · Prominence
722nd of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables'Taken' With Bill Simmons and Shea Serrano

How this film scores

Draw66

$227m worldwide in 2008 — $348m in today's money.

As released$227mIn 2026 money$348mRank939 of 8,589In 200823 of 224

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise55

Critics 55, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 55.

Critics55 → 28Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy65

Judged directly: 'Particular set of skills' endlessly parodied.

Verdict65 of 100IMDb7.7 from 669kWikipedia55k views a monthAge18 years

Scored beside it · 382 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 66 praise 55 legacy 65averages 62, which places it at24,220 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them.