Liam Neeson

Maggie Grace

Famke Janssen

Leland Orser

D.B. Sweeney

Jon Gries

Rade Šerbedžija

Luke Grimes

Kevork Malikyan

Alain Figlarz

Frank Alvarez

Murat Tuncelli

Ali Yildirim

Ergun Kuyucu

Cengiz Bozkurt

Hakan Karahan

Saruhan Sari

Naci Adıgüzel

Aclan Büyüktürkoğlu

Mehmet Polat

Yilmaz Kovan

Erdogan Yavuz

Luran Ahmeti

Cengiz Daner

Melis Erman

Erkan Üçüncü

Ugur Ugural

Alex Dawe

Olivier Rabourdin

Michaël Vander-Meiren

Rochelle Gregorie

Luenell

Emre Melemez

İlkay Akdağlı

Mylène Pilutik

Nathan Rippy

Atilla Pekoz

Serdar Okten

Mesut Makul

Mustafa Akin

Murat Karatas

Cuneyt Yanar

Baris Adem

Hasan Karagulle

Gazenfer Kokoz

Remzi Sezgin

Ahmet Orhan Ozcam

Melike Acar

Yasemin Yeltekin

Baris Aydin

Kenneth James Dakan

Adil Sak

Bekir Aslantaş

Ercan Kurt

Cetin Arik

Tamer Avkapan

Eraslan Sağlam

Mohammed Mouh

Julian Vinay

Gaelle Oilleau

Çağan Atakan Arslan

Sébastien Inizan

Franck Lebreton

Stéphane Bucher

Nathaniel Méchaly

Camille Delamarre

Robert Mark Kamen

Olivier Megaton

Luc Besson

Claire Dumaze

Pamela Lee Incardona

Rachel Benhabib

Myke Michaels

Vincent Tabaillon

Dana Loats

Nanci Roberts

John Papsidera

Atilla Yilmaz

Marylin Fitoussi

Romain Lacourbas

Frédéric Dessains

Frédéric Alhinho

Servet Demirbag

Jean-Benoit Guillon

Brayane Rafiq

Sébastien Peres

Richard Robinson

Tristan Girault

Ümit Barlas

Magali Bragard

Brian McManus

Aya Yabuuchi

Frédérique Arguello

Véronique Boitout

Michael Kelem

Steven Desbrow

Carl Bartels

Lorenzo Donati

Christophe Couzon

Elif Öner

Barbara Dally

Luc Poullain

Pierre Garnier

Adnan Aydın

Agnes Demaegot

John T. Martin

Jason Selsor

Shanna Besson

Eda Dalcam

Mohan Valmy

Martinus Van Lunen

Brett Laumann

Sam Urdank

Harika Uygur

Dana MacDuff

Steven R. Soussanna

Frédéric Dubois

Rodolphe Chabrier

Céline Collobert

Dennis Fuller

Guillaume Battistelli

Donn Markel

Vicente Parada

Philippe Penot

Christophe Maratier

Laurence Nicolas

Sophie Chatin

Karine Prido

Capucine Courau

Philippe Hubin

Alan D. Purwin

Neil Tansey

Anne Gibourg

Loïc Gourbe

Utku Insel

Filiz Dana

Eylem Yildirim

Thibaut Blanchet

Andrii Trifonov

Mark Vanselow

Diloy Gülün

Matthias Castegnaro

Melisa Kurtay

Sandie Louit

Anne Barbier

Ludovic Bernard

Ozge Cagaloglu

Shadie Elnashai

Pitch Mercadal

Cheyenne Corre

Gregory Barrau

Matthieu Bled

Murad Erdem

Michael Mandaville

Taken Collection

Action

Crime

Thriller

Taken 2

EuropaCorp

Grive Productions

M6 Films

20th Century Fox

Canal+

Ciné+

Karma Film Prod

France

Turkey

United States of America

English

Türkçe

العربية

kidnapping

turkey

police chase

teenage daughter

stealing a car

ex-husband ex-wife relationship

albanian

u.s. embassy

aggressive

furious

Taken 2 was... Not as good as the first one. Yes, I am sad to say it is not as good but on the other hand the story is still sound and the action is better and faster then before. Liam Neeson plays his role excellently while some on the other cast members didn't preform as well. All in all a good movie but there are some little problems, but worth seeing any way.

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I enjoyed this movie as a no-brainer action/thriller flick. Sure, it has a bunch of illogical and idiotic elements in but I have seen a lot worse. The movie certainly do not deserve the ridiculously low ratings that some people have given it.

It is perhaps not as good as the first movie, mostly due to the silly bits and pieces, but as a plain vanilla action/thriller it is certainly passable. I generally do like Liam Neeson. I did like him in the first Taken movie and I do like him in this one. The other actors with the possible exception of his wife and daughter are mostly there to fill up the scenes.

After a semi-dull beginning which is pretty much just setting up a reason for them all being in Istanbul, Bryan and his wife is, surprise, surprise, taken and that is pretty much when the action starts and from there on it is pretty much action all the way.

As have been mentioned, there are a lot of stupid things happening in the movie. Dropping grenades in the middle of Istanbul seemingly without anyone really reacting for instance. Bryan’s daughter have failed to take a drivers licence in the states several times but still, when thrown into a car with a manual gear stick, she handles the car like a stunt driver. Then we have a violin player that sits in the same spot all the time? Not to mention crashing into the embassy while being fired upon by the embassy marine guards and then they can just sit there in the wrecked car, in front of the embassy, while Bryan calls for help from some guy playing golf in the states.

It is clear that the Luc Besson didn’t really put realism very high on his agenda for this movie. But then this wouldn’t be the first time for him. Overlook the silliness and you have a decent enough action/thriller flick. At least I enjoyed it and I am normally not too forgiving when it comes to stupid and unrealistic stuff in movies.

Gimly

The _Die Hard 3_ of the _Taken_ franchise, except like... Nowhere near as good. Serviceable, but a step down from the first film, and even that one was pretty overrated.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

Taken 2( 2012)

First they took his daughter. Now they're coming for him.

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A review by GeekMasher

Written by GeekMasher on Fri Mar 15 2013

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