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Taken 2

Taken 2 (2012)

October. 04,2012
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6.2
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PG-13
| Action Thriller Crime

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

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Steineded
2012/10/04

How sad is this?

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ShangLuda
2012/10/05

Admirable film.

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Intcatinfo
2012/10/06

A Masterpiece!

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filippaberry84
2012/10/07

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Tweekums
2012/10/08

After the events of the first film, where protagonist Bryan Mills rescued his daughter from Albanians in Paris, the relatives of the criminals he killed are determined to get their revenge. To that end they chase and catch Byran and his ex-wife Lenore as they holiday in Istanbul. They also intend to take his daughter but he manages to call her and warn her. He gets free and using a secret phone he manages to guide her to his location so she can bring him a gun. Then he must get her to safety, return for his wife and make sure those seeking revenge can never threaten his family again.This film is basically more of the same so if you enjoyed the first film you'll probably enjoy this. As before it requires one to suspend ones disbelief more than a little as Bryan once again dispatches numerous Albanian thugs. This time we also have to believe that his daughter can get in on the action as she first gets a gun to him then drives him through the backstreets of Istanbul at speed while the kidnappers are in hot pursuit. Once the action starts it is fairly non-stop and exciting with lots of fighting and shooting. Inevitably there are a fair few clichés… just once when a bad guy is given the opportunity to walk away rather than try to kill the hero will he make the sensible choice?! Liam Neeson continues to impress in the lead role and the rest of the cast are good enough. Overall this isn't a must see but it passes the time nicely if you are a fan of the genre.

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Chris Hill
2012/10/09

Don't watch this film unless you have nothing else to do and you want to watch another mindless Hollywood film that has the same old formula: Super bad guys want to kill super good guy. 2 attractive females in short skirts. Car chases, explosions, martial arts fight scenes. Even the end of the film is exactly the same as many other Hollywood action action films you've seen (I won't spoil it for you but it required no imagination at all and you've seen this kind of ending many times before). Garbage film. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. (I don't understand why I need to fill in 10 lines of text to write a review on this website. I find that requirement ridiculous. This is my point of view and my review I should be able to write it in a few sentences or in 2 pages if I want to.)

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Terryfan
2012/10/10

Taken the first movie is one of my favorite films it really was original and shows that anything can happen with the right talent of both cast and crewTaken 2 however is pretty much a example of that a movie like Taken don't need a sequel. The film is more or less the same plot as the first movie only this time the roles are reverts where Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) and Lenore (Famke Janssen) were taken hostage leaving their daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) to fend for herself. The writers did improve on the character for Kim. There are some worth while moments the action is still good. It just the plot is being like a copy cat to the first film. There are some good moments in the film and some clever intent moments that make you go wow it's just the film don't live up to the standards that the first film had set and it goes to show that Taken was better off without the sequel. It's just the film is more or less a disappointment while yes there are some moments that make it watchable but the film just will make you wish you were watching Taken 1 insteadI give Taken 2 an 6 out of 10

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tomgillespie2002
2012/10/11

Pierre Morel's Taken (2008), a tough, disturbingly xenophobic thriller in which Liam Neeson's grizzled former CIA operative Bryan Mills took down a gang of sleazy criminals in Paris, was hilariously bad. But, in its defence, it was at least hilarious, etching Mills and his 'particular set of skills' into action lore. Taken was a surprise box-office success, igniting the recent wave of codgers- dealing-out-some-old-school-brutality films which the likes of Denzel Washington, Kevin Costner and Sean Penn have embraced to varying success, and proving that audiences still have a thirst for that kind of thing.So inevitably came the sequel, and the producers cannot be blamed for trying to squeeze their new franchise for every penny it's worth before the genre naturally reverts back to straight-to-DVD. What they, as well as the writers and director (franchise-newcomer Olivier Megaton - no, not the infamous Decepticon, though he may have done a better job), can be blamed for, is for putting the audience through the same exact experience again, only without the originality (I use that term loosely) or a coherent action scene. There's plenty of running, punching, kicking, shooting, stabbing etc., but Megaton is so busy waving his camera around and cutting every second that we are left relatively clueless about what is going on, or who anybody is.Not that this matters - unless it's Mills, his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) or his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) - then they're toast, especially if they have thick stubble and are wearing a leather jacket. A gang of Turkish mobsters led by Murad (go-to Eurosleaze Rade Serbedzija) vow vengeance for their brothers and sons who died at the hands of Mills during the events of the first film. After completing a routine security operation in Istanbul, Mills is joined by his ex- wife and daughter for some family time. Only, Mills and Lenore are 'taken', leaving Kim alone to locate her father so he can do what he does best and unleash his special skills on the scumbags.Simply recycling what came before is unforgivable in itself, but going about it in such bland, formulaic and increasingly ridiculous ways make the experience even more torturous. The movie has one simple message - America good, the rest of the world bad. L.A. is shot in glorious sunshine amongst the safety of middle-to-upper class suburbia, while Istanbul consists of dingy alleyways and overweight men puffing cigarettes in cockroach-infested rooms. This casual xenophobia may have waved somewhat if the film delivered any thrills at all, but it doesn't, and fizzles out with a weak climax. Neeson somehow manages to come away from it all unscathed again (and with his wallet no doubt heavier), but his ability to make lines such as "when a dog has a bone, the last thing you want to do is try and take it from him," sound like Oscar-bait does not save Taken 2 from complete disaster.

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