After two old black and white films, we jump back to the present day for this week's Tuesday Night is Film Night film, as we discover the story behind;
Taken 2
So Taken 2 is a sequel to Taken, well no surprise there! And the action is pretty much the same, although the story is different.
Just.
This time it is Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) who is taken, along with his ex wife Lenore (Famke Janssen), in a revenge kidnapping, by the father of the man that Mills killed in the first Taken movie.
Make sense?
This time the Mills' daughter Kim is spared the kidnapping and is therefore free to assist in breaking Bryan out from his captors.
As an action thriller, it is thrilling and there's action, but it seems to be a repeat of the first movie. Neeson playing the gritty, rough and craggy Mills, manages to defy the laws of luck and physics by pulling every known trick to evade his kidnappers. Kidnappers, who spend more time napping, than learning to shoot straight, as Neeson ploughs through yet another room full of gun toting goons and emerges the other side, without a scratch, whilst leaving a room full of corpses.
Yes, it is far fetched. Even the alternate ending was not that alternate.
If you haven't seen Taken, then Taken 2 will be bearable. If you enjoyed Taken, then Taken 2 maybe disappointing.
Action films are allowed some poetic licence to be far fetched, but when that fetchness is too far, then it becomes laughable. Sorry Taken 2, you've taken too much of a liberty with your storyline.
I may be alone is this summation, as the other members of the household scored it higher than I did. Taken 2 manages a fairly respectable 7.5 out of 10. (Not as good as the first one though!)
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