Liam Neeson puts his “particular set of skills” to use once again as everyone’s favorite badass dad in
Taken 2, but incoherent direction and lackluster screenwriting prove more formidable foes than any vengeful gangster as director Olivier Megaton and co-screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen fail to capture any of the gritty intensity that made the first film a surprise hit.
The movie’s plot is simple: His family targeted by a vengeful crime boss while vacationing in Istanbul, retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) must defeat an army of killers in order to get back home alive.
Perhaps it’s a bad omen that the plot of Taken 2...
Released:
2012
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
n/a