Rated PG-13
Running time: 92 Minutes
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In Twentieth Century Fox's Taken 2, retired CIA operative Liam Neeson is on a business vacation trip in Istanbul with his wife Famke Jansson and daughter Maggie Grace - when Neeson and Jansson get kidnapped by the father of the man who had kidnapped Maggie earlier.
In this sequel to Taken, I felt the movie was uneven. This seems not surprising as the work of writers Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen are uneven. I did not see the original movie, but while the father Rade Serbedzija was good as the vengeful father targeting Neeson and getting revenge for the death of Serbedzija's son and the rest of the village gang involved with the kidnapping of Grace to use her for human prostitution in the first Taken movie - some of the plot points were totally unbelievable, mostly dealing with Neeson and Jansson. The scenes at home with Grace's driving test were nice and ordinary - but once Neeson and Jansson were kidnapped, it started to get a little like an ordinary action film and a little illogical. I did like the use of the Marines at the U.S. Embassy, however. I felt that they were more realistically used in the movie than in Argo. Seeing Grace being determined to go after her kidnapped parents from her hotel was great to see. Luc Besson claims that this is the last Taken movie.
Rated PG-13 for violence. Running time: 92 Minutes.
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