![]() Where “only” Kim (Maggie Grace) - Mills’-and-ex-wife Lenore’s (Famke Janssen) daughter - was “taken” in the original, here the whole family gets abducted while in endlessly colourful Istanbul. ![]() Working with co-screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen, Luc Besson reinforces his supremacy as filmdom’s leading employer of actors who look like non-Western thugs, while director Olivier Megaton puts a preternaturally assured yet feeling-his-age Liam Neeson through his mellow-yet-lethal paces as Bryan Mills, the guy whose “skill set” is bad news for bad guys.Īs in recent Besson-produced English-language action flicks From Paris With Love and Colombiana, local law enforcement seems to go on holiday for the film’s running time. ![]() The “Hey - wait a minute’s” set in well before the closing credits roll, but while it’s unspooling, Taken 2 hangs together slickly enough to provide an entertaining, action-packed slice of distraction.
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