By Petey Brown
A&E Section Editor
Yet again Brian Mills (Liam Neeson) and his family are in another situation
overseas where someone has been taken in the hit movie Taken’s sequel, Taken 2.
Mills is a retired CIA operative who is working security in
Istanbul. He invites his ex-wife
and daughter to come visit him after he finishes his job. Mills ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen)
is upset because she is going through a divorce with her husband and accepts
Mills’ offer to visit. Lenore and
her daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) come to Istanbul for a nice visit. But that is
not in store for them.
Albanian human traffickers are targeting the Mills family. They are
seeking revenge for the family members that Mills killed to save his daughter
in Taken. The Albanian traffickers manage to capture Leonor and Brian, but not
Kim. Brian manages to warn Kim to
watch out for the takers, and she evades them.
In this movie, it is now Kim trying to rescue her father. Kim does not go to the United States
Embassy. Instead, she tries to help her father herself.
Taken was awesome, but its sequel is a bit disappointing. The movie did not seem as realistic as
the first. It was just plain silly at times. At one point in the movie, Kim throws grenades to try
finding her father. She does not
get arrested doing this either. It
was as if Director Oliver Megaton was trying too hard to one up his last film
and it did not end well.
Many critics were not fans of this movie. RottenTomatoes.com, a website
that compiles movie reviews together to make a rating for the movie, gave Taken
2 a 21 percent. However, viewers gave
this movie a 57 percent, which is not bad at all.
The movie was not awful. Liam Neeson he did a good job in this movie.
The plot was too much like a generic action movie. This movie is a good mindless action flick. If you liked the
first movie, then go see it. Taken
2 had a lot of good things from Taken. It just did not do anything
special.
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