Perhaps they should have reversed this situation. His wife, on the other hand, is tied up in chains and hung upside down with a cut in her throat dripping blood. He’s restrained with a plastic tie-up fixing him onto some metal piping. And director Olivier Megaton obviously didn’t watch the film in edit at all since he’s produced yet another incoherent film after duds like Colombiana and Transporter 3. This will be a long review because the insanity doesn’t end. But the closet of his hotel room! Of course they fucking look there. And where pray tell does he tell his daughter to hide? Not with the hotel security, not with the police, not with some close trusted CIA agent in the area.
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So these bad guys give him the time to make the call right in front of their eyes while they hold his wife hostage at gunpoint! Hmmm. But just before they catch Bryan and his wife, they allow Bryan to make a phone call to Kim at the hotel and tell her to run as they’re ‘being taken’. And they manage to do that pretty easily. So as Bryan and his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) and daughter Kim try to reconnect after some security work he has in Istanbul, the bad guys are plotting to capture them all. I mean did he not know what his son did and even if he was as evil surely he’d figure the son had it coming right? But he still thinks, ‘Yeah, let’s take on this guy who killed a dozen men with methodical and violent dexterity.’ What’s the worst that can happen? I mean how could he have killed the guy who abducted his daughter! The father of said offed bad guy played by Rade Sherbedgia wants revenge. In the meantime, the family and friends of the bad guys from the first film are burying all the men Bryan had to off on his chase to save his daughter from being sold in to human sex trafficking. Now’s his chance and if the first film didn’t win her back then he’s probably hoping his streak of attracting bad guys will do the trick in this one.īut Bryan must first freak his daughter out by making her stick to driving lesson timings and when she doesn’t show up he tracks her down at her boyfriend’s house and parades her back to his car. She doesn’t trust easily and has a hard time taking her driving test so daddy Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) gives her lessons while secretly checking in on his ex-wife and her disintegrating second marriage in an attempt to win her back. His daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) is obviously shaken up after she was kidnapped and almost sold into a life of prostitution in the first film. This second one has neither of those things and tons of ridiculously baffling plot points and bloopers. The first Taken carried itself to relative success with heaps of pounding action and Liam Neeson’s gritty performance. But then there wouldn’t be a sequel, would there. You’d think after the first film ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) would be more careful protecting his family. This is just one of the many inanities of this apocryphal film that made me laugh out loud at the sheer stupidity of it all. In order to save himself and his kidnapped wife, Liam Neeson’s character tells his daughter to hurl grenades anywhere around Istanbul so he can hear if she’s closer to him. Starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Rade Sherbedgia.