It's all the stuff around those scenes that needs a hefty rewrite. Movie Info Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sequences of ViolenceIntense Sequences of ActionSome Sensuality) Genre: Action, Mystery & thriller Original Language.
On the plus side, the action sequences - desaturated, chopped up and herky-jerky as they are - are mildly thrilling: The sight of gentle-giant Neeson walloping the heads, kneecaps and nonmentionables of assorted thugs is pretty much enough to make the angels sing the Notre Dame Victory March. Taken 2 must not be taken 2 seriously, although at the very least Megaton could have found better ways to use all those glorious, antique-looking Istanbul backdrops. OK, no one wants realism or logic in a movie written by a certified French-roasted coffee bean like Luc Besson (the co-writer is Robert Mark Kamen, who also collaborated with Besson on the first installment). Overview: In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter. Because that's the last place those people from Albania would ever look.
Leland Orser as Sam Gilroy NOW YOU CAN WATCH TAKEN 2 (2012) ONLINE AND FREE ON XEMOVIE.With help from her father, Kim (Maggie Grace) plots a course of action to survive what has to be the world's worst case of deja vu.Īctually, it doesn't quite go down that way - Janssen never even gets to go shopping, and Grace is told by her father, via furtive cellphone communique, to go into his hotel room and hide in the closet. CASTįamke Janssen as Lenore "Lennie" Mills-St. Jamie - Kim's boyfriend - was invited to sit at the same table with the Mills family. They went to eat ice cream to celebrate Kim passing the driving test. Three weeks later the Mills family returned to Los Angeles. Bryan kills Murad by smashing his head against a sharp hook on the wall. Bryan wants to spare Murad's life, but Murad picks up his gun, intending to kill Bryan. He rescued Lenore and killed all the mafia. Leaving Kim at the US embassy, Bryan began using his memory to find Murad's hideout. Bryan and Kim robbed a taxi, after a street chase, the father and son also reached the US Embassy. He rescued Kim, and Lenore was arrested again. Kim threw the gun down the chimney and Bryan used it to kill the mafia. Bryan dropped some smoke through the chimney to guide Kim to his location.
Stream It Or Skip It: Honest Thief on Amazon Prime, Another Movie In Which Liam Neeson. Opening his father's equipment suitcase, Kim threw the grenade onto the nearby rooftop, the explosion allowed Bryan to guide Kim to his location.īryan and Lenore broke free from their ropes. Find out where Taken 2 is streaming, if Taken 2 is on Netflix. Bryan secretly used a small phone to call Kim, telling her to go to the US Embassy, but she asked to help her parents. Kim successfully dodged when two mafia men were forced to flee after shooting and killing two security guards.īryan and Lenore were tied in a cellar. Realizing that Kim staying at the hotel was also a target, Bryan called Kim to ask her to hide. He told Lenore to run away so that he could cut off the mafia, but in the end both were arrested. While going out for lunch with Lenore, Bryan discovered Murad's subordinates were following them.
He was surprised when he met his ex-wife Lenore and daughter Kim. Then Murad bribed an official and learned that Bryan Mills was in Istanbul.īryan just completed three days as a bodyguard for an Arab giant in Istanbul. He and his subordinates went to Paris, tortured and interrogated Jean-Claude Pitrel, but got no information. In Tropojë, Albania, mafia boss Murad Hoxha holds a funeral for his son Marko, who was killed by Bryan Mills in the previous film. The film still stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen.
This is a sequel to the 2008 action film Taken.
Taken 2 (English title: Taken 2) is a 2012 American-French action-psychological film directed by Olivier Megaton.