Review of Taken 2 (2012) by Richard B — 06 Nov 2013
Taken was an excellent action movie, but I was skeptical the magic could be recreated. To my chagrin I was right. You never expect a sequel to be as good as the first, but this is more of falloff than most sequels.
The movie tires so hard to tie back to the last movie and lay reasonable groundwork in attempts to create a similar situation, but it still seems contrived. This time Liam Neisen and his ex-wife are kidnapped and it is up to their untrained teenage daughter to save them.
This aspect is a disaster and just takes things way too far. It gets back on track later in the movie, but it is too little too late. Just when things are looking up, the movie wraps up too quickly, as everything is resolved all too easily.
I still like Liam Neisen's character, but the situation is forced and the journey, and even the action are nothing but a hollow and dumbed down shell of what the first movie.
This review of Taken 2 (2012) was written by Richard B on 06 Nov 2013.
Taken 2 has generally received mixed reviews.
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