Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent, stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. The father of one of the kidnappers has sworn revenge and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul. Bryan enlists his daughter to help them escape. 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. Taken 2 is pretty much the same, only a little bigger and dumber (and even more improbable). The action in Taken 2 isn't exactly James Bond or Jason Bourne intense. The first Taken was more energetic and a bit more believable, whereas this one appears "unnecessary" in every detail. The unlikeliness of most of the action scenes is so patent that it seems unclear whether the humor is intentional or not. Those who enjoyed the first Taken will probably be disappointed by this one. To sum up it's definitely one of those sequels existing purely because its predecessor made money. It's a pity because the first installment was really a good story. "If the dog has a bone, the last thing you want to do is take it from him."<br/><br/>Well, a need for revenge exists in an Albanian mobster, Murad Krasniqi (Rade Serbedzija), vowing to get even with the man who killed his son. Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is in Istanbul, protecting a sheik, about to return to the States after performing his duty, greeted surprisingly by his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace) and ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen), deciding to accept his invite to join him in Turkey for this temporary assignment. Murad and his men arrive in Istanbul with one goal, to kidnap Bryan and his family with plans to execute them all. Bryan is to be tortured and die miserably but not before seeing his wife hung upside down, a slight cut on her neck bleeding out as the rush to her head eventually leads to death that was Murad's plan anyway. Funny thing about fighting machines like Bryan Mills they don't just go down according to plan.<br/><br/>The Turkish setting (the rooftops, streets, and old buildings) allows for some excitingly fresh environs, but I have to say that the story goes through the motions, with little time for Liam Neeson the actor to pull us into his emotional crisis. Because there never seems to be a fear that his wife or daughter will perish at the hands of Murad and his Albanian thugs, and Bryan leaves their potential for harm freed from his mind so he can equip himself with the resolve and mental functioning needed to rescue them, Neeson barely has time to even scratch the surface of his acting capabilities and convey the turmoil that should exist in such a dire situation. <br/><br/>I think the film's fundamental flaw, however, is the insistence to infuse Maggie Grace into the action; her driving the taxi cab through the populated (and narrow) streets of Istanbul like a trained stuntwoman (despite father's nagging about "speed up", "go go..go ", and "turn right now!"), leaping across rooftops like an Olympic champion, and successfully coordinating a perimeter based on Bryan's instructions without a hitch all seem questionable and hard to swallow. And the need for Grace to portray a teenager when she's nearly as old as me (she was born in '83 for crying out loud!), attempting to get her driver's license and dating a boy much to papa's chagrin, is really ridiculous.<br/><br/>While I loved watching Neeson go to work because it's "what he does best", I do believe this should be his second and final film in the role; seeing him with so little to work with (while Damon in the Bourne movies was equipped with some finely realized emotional scenes) was rather frustrating to me. It is cool, sure, to see him walk into a room of thugs and out, them dead in less than 45 seconds, but the film poster offers so much more than Neeson ever gets a chance to provide (sitting in a grueling slumped position of agony and exhaustion, having time to contemplate what's happened, the film doesn't afford him such a luxury). Janssen has a tiny bit of time to openly express her second marriage's crumbling to a sympathetic Bryan, but she's primary held captive in a room with Murad and others threatening her (Murad says he will send her back home in pieces), while Grace insists on helping Daddy get her back. Eventually though, the film allows Bryan to shake off his daughter and take care of the bad guys with his superior fighting skills (hand to hand combat and an exchange of gun fire) and quick reflexes. The film hums when we see bullets almost hit Bryan ( who has just enough presence of mind to move in the nick of time) and Bryan use his surroundings as weapons of destruction. Walls and floors are unforgiving when Bryan bounces your body and head off of them with his swift accuracy and sharp martial arts skills. For whatever reason, though, the story itself (or the characters really) never quite match the scenes where Bryan annihilates his foes. It isn't a fault I could blame on Neeson, Janssen, or Grace the situation they are flung into gives little time (besides hitting the basic points of where the characters are in their lives with seconds-long dialogue scenes) for character development. It becomes a matter of survival and rescue. The taxi cab car chase, leaving behind a lot of vehicular and city structural damage, is a doozy, though. Murad's son may've died horribly at Bryan's hands (thanks to a seated electrocution), but there's very little sympathy for someone kidnapping girls and sending them off to be sex slaves, so the revenge angle is relatively weak…it does give Bryan a reason to wipe out some more lowlifes, so I guess that's all that was needed. This film follows closer to the action films of the 80s where logic and realism take a back seat to bodies smashing and cars crashing, so that alleviates some of the impact an actor of Neeson's caliber can bring to Taken 2. Like others, I view this as a missed opportunity, but its strengths are exciting. None of it is particularly novel or exciting. Retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (<a href="/name/nm0000553/">Liam Neeson</a>) invites ex-wife Lenore "Lennie" (<a href="/name/nm0000463/">Famke Janssen</a>) and their teenage daughter Kim (<a href="/name/nm1192254/">Maggie Grace</a>) to spend a few days in Istanbul with him. Things go bad when Bryan and Lennie are abducted by Murad Krasniqi (<a href="/name/nm0784884/">Rade Serbedzija</a>), the leader of the ring of Albanian sex traffickers who kidnapped Kim and her friend Amanda (<a href="/name/nm1556320/">Katie Cassidy</a>) a few years earlier. This time, however, it is Kim who must find and rescue her father so that he can do the same for Lennie. Taken 2 is the sequel to <a href="/title/tt0936501/">Taken (2008)</a> (2008), which was based an original script by French filmmaker Luc Besson and American screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen who also wrote the screenplay for Taken 2. It is followed by <a href="/title/tt2446042/">Taken 3 (2014)</a> (2015). Retracing the route that he memorized during his abduction, Bryan finds the house where Murad has taken Lenore. After shooting, knifing, and neck-snapping his way past 10 thugs, he discovers that Murad has moved Lennie. He follows them to the haman (Turkish bath) where he finally comes face-to-face with Murad. Holding Murad at gunpoint, Bryan asks whether Murad's other sons will seek revenge if he kills him. Murad confirms his suspicion. Wanting an end to the vendetta, Bryan gives Murad a choice—either walk away and end this or die here. Murad gives his word to end the vendetta, so Bryan drops his gun and begins to walk away. Immediately, Murad grabs the gun and tries to shoot Bryan in the back only to discover that the gun is empty. Bryan shows Murad the bullet, then pushes him against the wall, impaling him on a towel hook. He then tends to Lennie. In the final scene, which takes place three weeks later in Los Angeles, Kim passes her driving test, so Bryan takes her and Lennie to an ice cream parlor on the Malibu pier. The waitress brings them four milkshakes, puzzling Bryan until he sees Kim's boyfriend Jamie (<a href="/name/nm2093766/">Luke Grimes</a>) walk in. When Kim asks her dad whether it is okay to have Jamie join then, Bryan lightens up and shakes Jamie's hand. "Don't shoot this one, Dad," Kim laughs. "I really like him." The unrated version is more than 6 minutes longer. But contrary to the first one, there are more differences that cut scenes to get the PG-13. It rather seems like the movie editors wanted to save running time. As a result, there are more plot elements in the unrated version and especially one thing: more walking . That means not everything is really noticeable and that footage is simply superfluous, that's for sure. Nevertheless, the violence is rougher now (there are the common differences like cuts, more harmless alternate footage, reducing the blood color, reducing or removing the sound of cracking bones) but it still doesn't reach the level of the first Taken. a5c7b9f00b Dee Dee full movie hd 720p free downloadLogan's Run full movie free downloadDeadpool 3 song free downloadEveryday Heroes full movie hd downloadHome: Part 2 full movie hd 1080pGame Time in hindi free downloadEpisode 1.238 downloadTitan A.E. malayalam movie downloadThe Introduction tamil dubbed movie torrentMoonwalker full movie online free
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