![]() You’re hanging upside down and bleeding, with a black hood over your head, and you hear your ex-husband’s reassuring voice: It’s all gonna be OK. (Not to worry this is only PG-13-rated hanging upside down and bleeding to death.) ![]() Krasniqi, having made a precise slit in Leonore’s throat, kindly explains that because the blood will flow to her head, she won’t bleed to death right away. This leads to Lenore being left hanging by chains, upside down in a warehouse, while Mills is chained to a pipe in the same room. This time Mills and Lenore are kidnapped, when Kim pulls out of a family outing. Never mind that Bryan Mills’ daughter was one of the kidnappees. Never mind that the lad specialized in kidnapping young tourists and making them sex slaves. The chief mourner is Murad Krasniqi (the dependably evil Rade Sherbedgia), whose son was among the victims. Now we see that Mills killed so many bad guys in the first film that a transport plane is needed to airlift their bodies home, and a mass burial is required to dispose of them. He’s only a stone’s throw from Albania, where the film opens with a funeral of Mills’ victims from the first “Taken.” I have long complained that action pictures leave dozens of dead bodies behind and unaccounted for. Mills has been hired to be a sheik’s bodyguard in Istanbul when he wraps the job, he invites Kim and Lenore to join him for some R&R in Istanbul.īad idea. Lenore’s new husband has proven to be a no-good rat, and some energy flows between her and Bryan, the father of their daughter Kim (Maggie Grace). You don’t need to have seen the first film to follow this one, which opens with touching scenes between ex-CIA man Bryan Mills (Neeson) and his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen, who is seriously beautiful here). They say that the family that’s kidnapped together, stays together and a whole lotta bonding will go on after this one. I suppose the second kidnapping was necessary in “Taken 2,” which stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen in a pumped-up sequel to “Taken” (2008). This despite her having a father so protective that he implants a GPS app in her iPhone and bursts in on her making out with her sweet, polite boyfriend. She doesn’t even have her driver’s license yet, and she’s been kidnapped by sex traffickers in Paris and terrorists in Istanbul. Some scenes were filmed during a week at the new film studios of the Cité du Cinéma founded by Luc Besson in Saint-Denis in France. The Istanbul scenes were shot in November 2011. A third film, Taken 3, was released on 9 January 2015.įilming took place throughout early 2012 Neeson and Grace shot their scenes in January in Los Angeles. Released on 5 October 2012, the film grossed over $376 million at the box office, but received largely critical acclaim reviews from critics. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Taken and the second installment in the Taken trilogy. Taken 2 is a 2012 English-language French action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Šerbedžija, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, D.B. Sweeney and Luke Grimes. Once she manages to free her father, Mills puts his “particular set of skills” to use while attempting to rescue his Lenore, and escape Merad’s unrelenting attack. ![]() Later, in Istanbul, the family is settling in and enjoying the sites when Merad’s gang abducts Mills and Lenore.Ĭommunicating with her father via a hidden cell phone, Kim accesses his secret weapons cache and embarks on a frantic race through an unfamiliar city in a bid to rescue her parents from certain death. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Mills invites his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) and their daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) to join him on a trip to Istanbul after their long-planned trip to China falls through. As the families of the kidnappers killed by Mills gather together for a mass funeral, their leader Merad (Rade Sherbedgia) vows to make the man who brought them so much misery pay. His family targeted by a vengeful crime boss in Istanbul, retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) must fight an army of killers to ensure their safe return in this action sequel from director Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3) and producer/co-writer Luc Besson (who penned the screenplay alongside Taken scribe Robert Mark Kamen). Taglines: They want revenge, They chose the wrong guy. ![]()
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