½ pipe out of 4
Sometimes sequels don’t need to be made and when it
comes to Taken 2, this is a definitely the case. When a movie like the original Taken
sits on the movie company shelf for 2 years before being released, you can tell
it’s not movie gold. That is what happened with Taken but it was released at
the perfect time when there were no other action films in theaters and it did
huge. You’d think that the movie company would count this as a win and move on.
Oh no, not in this day and age. Any time movie companies see dollar signs they immediately
think sequel, even if those dollar signs were just dumb luck. Don’t get me wrong;
I loved Taken just as much as the next guy but Taken 2 is a whole other story. The
movie looses all of the emotional edge from the first film and it looks like
Liam Neeson has done this all before, which he has, and simply goes down a
checklist of what to do when your wife and daughter are kidnapped. Throw in a
number of other inconsistencies and the fact the Neeson rescues his family in
less than 12 hours make this a forgettable movie.
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