Thursday 22 November 2012

Taken 2 (2012) 6/10

Starring : Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Rade Sherbedgia
Director : Olivier Megaton
Running Time : 93 mins

History repeats itself when retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (Neeson) invites his ex-wife Lenore (Janssen) and daughter Kim (Grace) to spend some time with him in Istanbul where he is working. It isn’t long before Bryan and Lenore are kidnapped by a man named Murad Krasniqi (Sherbedgia), the father of the man Mills killed when his daughter was kidnapped years earlier, and now their only hope of escape is Kim, who managed to evade capture.

For some reason Liam Neeson looks like he’s not even trying in this odd sequel. I just couldn’t fathom why there would be a sequel to Taken other than the fact that it made so much money that the producers though that making another would be guaranteed profit. This movie is a little weak, and having Maggie Grace trying to defeat the bad guys was almost laughable, but fans of random action movies that don’t make sense should get a kick out of this.

You’ll like this if you liked : Die Hard 4.0



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