Taken 2 (2012)

Preceeded by: Taken (2008)
Succeeded by: Taken 3 (2014)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Bryan Mills	Liam Neeson
Kim Mills	Maggie Grace
Lenore Mills-St John	Famke Janssen
Murad Hoxha	Rade Šerbedžija
Sam Gilroy	Leland Orser	-
Mark Casey	Jon Gries	-
Bernie Harris	D. B. Sweeney	-
Jean-Claude Pitrel	Olivier Rambourdin	-

Review

This time daddy teaches special agent stuff to his girl (who is not really a girl, but an almost 30 year old woman, which makes the entire character of Kim a bit weird). Together they have to escape and then fight off a group of Albanian gangsters who want to avenge their friends killed by daddy in Taken. And for this purpose, a new character is introduced, the father of Marko from the first film, played by Rade Šerbedžija. For some reason he doesn't speak Albanian, but what the heck. As long as you keep moving forward fast enough, you won't notice the landscape. And that's director Olivier Megaton's strategy here. But the film quickly falls into its own formula and suffers from a little less inspired writing and a noticeably less flexible Liam Neeson than in the original. Taken 2 is at its best when showing the tactical side of Bryan's agent work. But mostly we're getting revenge, chase and melee masturbation, which wears off long before the film reaches its inevitable conclusion.