"Do you know how to shoot?"
"No."
"Then drive!"
Taken 2 is a truly disappointing sequel to an enjoyable action-thriller. The premise is fine - this time it is Neeson and his wife who are 'taken' - but the straightforward revenge story provides such a thin narrative that very little actually happens, and what does occur is incredibly simplistic. Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen try their very best to wring something from weak material, and Maggie Grace might have well have not turned up at all as she is given hardly anything to do. The Far Eastern locations look good, but the action sequences are not particularly well executed or impressive, and this is another example of a film franchise chasing a younger (wider) audience and sacrificing the full-on effect that made it work in the first place.
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