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Oct 4, 2012 · Review: Don’t mess with Liam Neeson in ‘Taken 2’. By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic. Oct. 4, 2012 12 AM PT. The original “Taken” may have earned an impressive $224 million-plus in...
Oct 4, 2012 · Why would anyone mess with Liam Neeson's family again, given the brutal swath he cut in the first Taken? That's a great question, say critics, who find Taken 2 to be largely bereft of the...
Sep 28, 2012 · Maggie Grace has joked about her Taken 2 co-star Liam Neeson's reputation for intensity. Grace disclosed that although Neeson often plays very brooding men on the big screen, he is...
- Written in Crayon
- Acting Skills Abducted
- Don’T Be Fooled by His Name
- Bottom Line: Taken 2: Electric Boogaloo Would Have Been better.
The flaws begin on the page. The “story” is ferocious in its lameness. This time around Mills is in Istanbul when his estranged ex-wife and daughter surprise him with a visit. Then the generic foreign bad guys attempt to abduct each of them, in revenge for Mills’ Parisian killing spree, and Mills endeavors to stop them. That is it. There is no char...
It is obvious that the script didn’t entice any of the actors to return, so they are clearly in it for the pay check. Neeson and Janssen seem to try their best initially, but Neeson quickly stops putting the effort in and simply phones it in (In fact, it’s more like he used a walkie-talkie than a phone). This is a great shame, because the success o...
Megaton has a very appropriate name for action movies, but his talent is seriously lacking. Whereas the first Taken movie was fun and thrilling, this one is cynical, not particularly fun at all, and is utterly devoid of tension. The direction is inept and incoherent…and that’s the best I can say. I had expected somewhat poor writing, and direction,...
This movie is a mess, an utter shambles. It is genuinely hard to convey the true scope of its failures in a Safe For Work manner. If this movie had actually been Taken 2: Electric Boogaloo, where the special set of skills Mills unleashes are wicked dance skills and he then uses them to save the rec-center…that would have been a vast improvement. DI...
Nov 3, 2022 · Bryan Mills (Neeson) loses his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace) to an abduction, so he absconds to Europe to track her down, killing henchman upon henchman in the process. It all has a happy ending,...
- Mike Bedard
Sep 28, 2012 · It places Liam Neeson’s retired CIA operative in Istanbul, where a group of dishevelled gangsters are waiting to do evil things to both he and his family, and only his skills of survival and...
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Oct 5, 2012 · At a beefy 6'4", Liam Neeson, the star of Taken 2, certainly looks physically imposing, but he can also act. The counter-intuitive notion of casting someone who can be human and vulnerable as...
