If there is one guy you don’t mess with, it’s Liam Neeson. He’s proven this point in the first “Taken” film which has forever changed the way we leave voicemails. “I will find you. And I will kill you.” Well, apparently the father of Marco, otherwise known as “‘Good luck’ guy” didn’t get that memo, being as he decided to hunt Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson, Unknown) in Taken 2. Not only does he plan on taking Bryan, but he plans on nabbing his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen, X-Men: The Last Stand) and his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace, Taken). In order to save himself and his loved ones, Bryan must do what he does best: kill anything that has a gun and doesn’t speak his language!
This movie was seriously awesome. One concern among “Taken” fans, myself included, was that this movie would go down the same road that so many others have before it when an original movie makes more money than expected: The crappy sequel, or worse, the franchise that just won’t die (See Transformers for details). “Taken” was such a spectacular film that ruining it with an awful sequel should be punishable by death. Fortunately, this wasn’t necessary, because the sequel delivered just as much fast paced action as the original.
“Taken 2” is rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action (pure unadulterated Liam Neeson action: gunplay, fist fights, etc.) and some sensuality (a woman is shown in a bikini, and a man takes buttons off a woman’s shirt with a knife, but nothing is shown).
Ben Asper