Halle Berry Sets Out to Rescue Her Kidnapped Child in First Kidnap Trailer

Posted on August 24, 2016

Who didn't love Liam Neeson in Taken? It was an awesome movie that spawned a new genre: badass parents who kill kidnappers who steal their children. In taken, it was a college age daughter that was abducted, put on hardcore drugs against her will and sold to the highest bidder as a prostitute. We were so happy when her dad tracked those evildoers down and did to them what he does best. Now Halle Berry is in her own Taken-style movie, but with a few crucial differences.

Halle plays a young mom who is playing Marco Polo with her son at an amusement park. The son is quite young, he's just a child. She looks away for a moment and he's taken. Kidnapped. But Halle sees him being bundled into a car so she sets off after him. She drops her phone during her run towards her son and the kidnapper, so she has no cell phone while she's in the car following him (or her).

She reports the kidnapping to the police, but then realizes there are scores of missing kids posters in that police station. Presumably all those kids were never recovered because their parents weren't proactive enough. So Halle jumps back into her car and goes after the kidnapper. She goes the wrong way on the freeway, causing multiple accidents along the way. No worries, they're just collateral damage. We have no idea what she's going to do when she catches this kidnapper.

The trailer does not mention her character being former special ops or an off-duty police person, or any other piece of information that would lead us to believe that she has a special set of skills to kill kidnappers. But it's clear from the trailer that she does catch up to the kidnapper and he's in real trouble (maybe she has a secret life as a top assassin and has assorted weapons concealed on her person.) In any event, we really can't wait to see who the kidnapper is and what she does to him.

The film hits theaters on December 2, 2016. Take a look:

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