Lack of good storyline.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Don't Believe the Hype

best movie i've ever seen.

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.

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. Taken 2 is movie that should have never made but at least they tried and they kinda did it justice kinda, there's a lot of action in this film alongside some pretty good suspense unfortunately the movie looses it's focus from some plot elements where the director Olivier Megatron (Transporter 3) tries to turn Bryan Mills from a CIA operative to a superhero that remembers and knows everything. Also the villains weren't something that great if you ask me but then again not even the first one had amazing villains but the first film was mostly based upon him finding his daughter and all this psychological thriller he had to go threw so he could find her but at least the film does stay true to it's title since someone does get Taken in around the first 30 to 35 minutes into the film but if you erase from your mind the weak plot and villains and possibly the worst death of a villain ever that happens in the end you will find enjoyable in the end but don't except anything like the first movie was but for a sequel that shouldn't exist since the first film was perfect on it's own it does deliver some action and the 3 leading actors do give some pretty good performances and i'll give it a 7.9/10

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.)

Rather inevitable follow-up to "Taken" the movie that made Liam Neeson an unlikely action hero, like an older Jason Bourne, by which I men a bunch of bad men come after Liam's family, this time and mother makes three and live, or should that be die to regret it. There is a change of location to Istanbul which means we get some nice establishing shots of the city and one action chase across the rooftops to afford some nice views of the skyline.Otherwise, Liam is up to his usual tricks of being able to avoid bullets at will, kill a man by just laying his hand on his face, guide his daughter go the baddies lair by having her through grenades all over the city and best of all recreate the route back to the villains himself with a combination of super hearing and total recall which wouldn't embarrass a cross between Superman and Sherlock Holmes.Oh and there's lots of shooting, killing, fist fights and car chases, the silliest of which being when Liam's daughter tears across town driving like an Indy 500 veteran with her dad in the passenger seat, trying to avoid the pursuing would-be killers and achieving a death- defying race across a railway line which the other car doesn't...before she's even passed her driving-test.It's all unbelievable nonsense, directed at a furious pace with cross-cuts and multiple shots of the same scene, to a pounding musical backdrop just to further reinforce the feeling that you're actually in the middle of a shoot-em-up-cum-car-chase computer game.Neeson does his best latter-day John Wayne, but the incompetence of the baddies, plus they seem to have a far-from-threatening family ringleader means that the ending is never in doubt. In fact I'd go as far to say the beginning and middle were never in doubt either, if you've seen "Taken 1".Pretty predictable, passionless stuff all round I'd say.