90 minutes of my life TAKEN!

Rating: 3/10 (25 December 2012)

I'm writing this review as someone who really loved the first Taken movie. I found the story good, the character Bryan to be great, the acting to be brilliant and most importantly, the action to be superbly filmed and extremely awesome.
Now I came to Taken 2, which is simply said an extremely unnecessary sequel and also an extremely horrible film. The only good thing about this film that kept me watching it was Liam Neeson's superb acting. Everything else was either overdone or underdone. The story was just plain and lame. "Revenge" is far too common a theme for action films. That wasn't the biggest problem. The villains in this movie just sucked. I mean, they decide to capture Bryan and his family to torture them to death but later on they only use the mum to lure Bryan.
The villains in Taken were so much better. They actually had screen time, they were evil and they were proud of it. In this film, we have bad guys who just seem like normal nice guys for the majority of the film and occasionally do something bad. I mean, don't let me explain how extremely horrible the last 20 minutes was. That stupid and unnecessary car chase was extremely lame and was too long and boring. Not to mention that it was horribly filmed. I mean, who were the cinematographers in this film???? Was it C3PO!?!?!
The bad cinematography made the couple of minutes of action the goddamn film had completely useless and lame. I mean, take Taken for an example. That film had a lot of suspense action. There were lots of murder because the bad guys were much bigger and powerful. In this film, we have about 10 bad guys and that's it. Huh!?!?!
The directors forgot that Taken was simply a badass action movie. What made Bryan so badass in the first was that he was all by himself and no matter what happened to him, he was determined to go to the very end to save his daughter. That was great! Now, we have Taken 2 where he tells his daughter to throw grenades to see how close she is. I mean, did he ever think about anything??? The girl could've been killed, other innocent people themselves could've died. Its just all stupid
Let me talk about the final confrontation between Bryan and the main bad guy, whose name I can hardly remember after watching this traumatizing film. That scene was extremely horrible. I've seen many horrible films in my life, but this scene made the film the more worse. I understand, there was some emotion. It was great to see that. But, what the hell is with the way that the guy died!?!?! All Bryan did was touch his damn face! How can someone die like that???? That has to be the stupidest death scene, next to Boba Fett's death, to a stupid villain.
Let me quickly describe the few minutes of lame action this film had. It can easily be described as painful to watch, boring and repeated action. Seriously, the fighting looked extremely stupid. I saw a few cases in which people died just by getting their faces touched. The punching looks extremely fake, just all in fast forward. I mean, this isn't Neo vs Agent Smith from the 1999 Matrix. It was a terrible terrible experience.
Don't watch this CRAP. It hurts/.