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Taken 2 (2012)

Preceeded by: Taken (2008)
Succeeded by: Taken 3 (2014)

Director:
Olivier Megaton

COUNTRY
France

Genre
Action

NORWEGIAN TITLE
Taken 2

RUNNING TIME
91 minutes

Producer:
Luc Besson

Screenwriter:
Luc Besson
Robert Mark Kamen


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Bryan Mills Liam Neeson
Kim Mills Maggie Grace
Lenore Mills-St John Famke Janssen
Murad Hoxha Rade Šerbedžija
Sam Gilroy Leland Orser -
Mark Casey Jon Gries -
Bernie Harris D. B. Sweeney -
Jean-Claude Pitrel Olivier Rambourdin -

 

Review

This time daddy teaches special agent stuff to his girl (who is not really a girl, but an almost 30 year old woman, which makes the entire character of Kim a bit weird). Together they have to escape and then fight off a group of Albanian gangsters who want to avenge their friends killed by daddy in Taken. And for this purpose, a new character is introduced, the father of Marko from the first film, played by Rade Šerbedžija. For some reason he doesn't speak Albanian, but what the heck. As long as you keep moving forward fast enough, you won't notice the landscape. And that's director Olivier Megaton's strategy here. But the film quickly falls into its own formula and suffers from a little less inspired writing and a noticeably less flexible Liam Neeson than in the original. Taken 2 is at its best when showing the tactical side of Bryan's agent work. But mostly we're getting revenge, chase and melee masturbation, which wears off long before the film reaches its inevitable conclusion.

Copyright © 02.09.2021 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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