Thursday 3 January 2013

Taken 2 Movie Review


Taken 2 is a stereotypical action movie sequel. It piles on more of everything, except for originality, while recycling the plot of the first film. In fact, its narrative is such a shameless rehash that Taken 2 resorts to numerous flashbacks from the first film, unable to carry the narrative on its own.In the first film, retired CIA field agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) had hunted down and killed the prostitution gang that had kidnapped and tried to sell off his daughter Kim Mills (Maggie Grace). The film is set two months after Taken (2008) as the crooked Albanian businessman Murad Krasniqi (Radeerbedžija), who is the father of one of Kim’s kidnappers, vows to have his engeance.Soon enough Bryan’s family is attacked once again but this time the baddies kidnap Bryan’s ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen). 


Although the body count in Taken 2 is certainly quite high, the action sequences aren’t particularly exciting nor are they inventive as Bryan effortlessly kills almost every Albanian baddie in Europe. In fact, at some point I started to feel sorry for the Albanians who were dropping like flies. Yes, Taken 2 made me feel sad for cutthroat killers and kidnappers.Moreover, the film features a ridiculously unbelievable chase sequence where Bryan and his daughter crash into the US Embassy in a stolen taxi without any major injuries. That’s the biggest flaw in Taken 2: it seems as if Bryan and his family are immortal. Intellectual properties like Die Hard, 24 and the Tom Clancy films have all had similar plots as the Taken films but they were much more successful at creating suspense because the rotagonists and their family members were always close to dying or being seriously injured.Regardless, let’s just hope for the sake of the future of Albania that Bryan Mills’ family is now left well enough alone. 


Although with Taken 2 having already achieved box-office success on its first weekend, the next kidnapping is bound to happen in the near future. There is certainly money in it.

Taken 2 Movie Sequel


Liam Neeson has cast doubt on a sequel; however, 20th Century Fox and Taken co-writer/producers Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen are considering developing Taken 3. "We didn't start talking about Taken 3 until we saw the numbers," Kamen Says. "But then we said, 'Oh, okay. I think we should do a third one.' And Fox wants us to do a third one. We've taken everyone we can take it's going to go in another direction. Should be interesting."

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Taken 2 is an amazing story about a person named Bryan Mills. he goes to Istanbul on a job and invites Kim and her mother named Leonor.Some European try to grab them. In this way, he warns Kim , but she avoids them.Moreover, she suggests him to help them. She comes to know about truth and gives him a weapon. He tries to save Leonor, but he fails to save Leonor. Furthermore, finally he relies on his memory to find her.




Taken 2 Movie Cast & Crew


Crew :

Director : Olivier Megaton
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen,
Producer : Luc Besson
Editing : Camille Delamarre,Vincent Tabaillon
Art Directors : Nanci Roberts,Atilla Yilmaz


Cast :

Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, a retired Intelligence agent

Maggie Grace as Kim Mills, Bryan's daughter

Famke Janssen as Lenore, Bryan's wife

Rade Šerbedžija as Murad, chief of the Albanian mafia and head of the kidnappers

Leland Orser as Sam, Bryan's friend and former CIA colleague

Jon Gries as Casey

D.B. Sweeney as Bernie

Luke Grimes as Jamie, Kim's boyfriend

Kevork Malikyan as Inspector Durmaz.