Customer Ratings & Reviews

How do you come back from the worst experience in your life? Therapy, denial, maybe some substance abuse? What if, after a relatively short amount of time, you’re flung back into a very similar circumstance? I don’t imagine that would help. Sometime after returning to the relative safety of Los Angeles, Bryan Mills (played by Liam Neeson), his ex-wife Lenore (played by Famke Janssen) and their daughter Kim (played by Maggie Grace) are still rebounding from the trauma they suffered. Bryan (Neeson) arrives at Kim’s home to give her a driving lesson only to be informed that she is not even in the house. She’s with her boyfriend. A boyfriend Bryan knew nothing about, no less. Simultaneously, in Tropoje, Albania, Murad Hoxha, father of deceased kidnapper and human trafficker Marko Hoxha, is attending a funeral service being conducted for his son and his accomplices. Murad (played by Rade Serbedzija) vows to avenge the deaths of his son and his friends. After hearing that a planned vacation to China is cancelled by Lenore’s now estranged husband, Bryan invites both Kim and Lenore to join him on a business trip in Istanbul once he’s fulfilled his professional obligations. They arrive sooner than expected and, unbeknownst to them, followed by Murad’s henchman. Following a family lunch in the marketplace, Kim returns to the hotel. It’s immediately apparent to Bryan and Lenore that their daughter hopes privacy and the exotic locale will rekindle feelings of love in her long-divorced parents. While romance does seem to be in bloom between the couple, it is abruptly halted when Murad and his men make their play for the Mills family. Now, I was and still am a huge fan of the 2008 film. I believe Neeson took a film that would’ve seemed dull and uninspired in the hands of Jason Statham, Vin Diesel, or any other contemporary action star and elevated it beyond the material. This film, while entertaining and plausible enough for an action/adventure, is the lesser of the two. Of course, there’s the fact that it’s more of the same and, therefore, less interesting. In addition, while the original depended on Neeson’s estimable talent, this film relies heavily on Maggie Grace. A competent actress, sure, but nowhere near as good as Liam Neeson. I enjoyed it about as much as I expected to. That’s it.

This sequel to "Taken" is more of the same, the first film was so believable & was a real no holds barred suspense thriller about a former CIA operative who knows his way around the world & gets the guys who take his daughter for the purpose of white slavery, he kills many of them in his quest to find her, & rescues her at the end, this follow-up had a good premise, with some family members of the people he killed in the first film wanting revenge, but I feel they really should have had the bad guys coming to Los Angeles to get their revenge rather than have another overseas mishap, some years have passed since the first film's events, & Liam Neeson once again commands the screen as a over protective father, there are some highlights such as him & his ex-wife(Famke Jansen) sort of re-connecting, but then he has a overseas assignment where he is protecting a world leader, once the job is done his ex-wife & daughter make a surprise appearance, this is where you really have to suspend belief, why would a daughter who was kidnapped want to take another overseas trip?, why would her mother want to even take her overseas after what happened in the first film, & why would Neeson even be happy they were there?...knowing the dangers all around them, what follows is more of the same as Neeson & Jansen are taken this time, & the daughter (Maggie Grace) has to help her parents, again there is so much suspension of disbelief here, when what they should have done is have the bad guys come to L.A. & Neeson fight them there, that would have been more believable, this like many sequels suffers from sheer laziness on the part of the filmakers who know they have an audience & do nothing different, this one has its share of action, but it could have been sooo much better!!...& it wasn't.....this one is a mixed bag for me.

This was a good action movie. I really liked the fact that the same actors were playing the main characters in this sequel ... Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, & Maggie Grace. (To me, sequels just aren't as believable when the actors playing the main characters are different from those in the original film.) If you enjoyed watching Taken, you'll probably enjoy Taken 2, as well.

I just can't wait to have this DVD again thank you I hope there will be Taken 3 ...

Taken was a good movie and then Taken 2 just made it even better. Some people thought the idea was just repeating the first one, but Neeson can just go into full buttkicker mode. Great movie.

Great movie! Would recommend this movie. Liam is great.

It was better than the first. Lots of action and thrills