It's watchable but nothing new

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2012)

The first "Taken" was a cool quasi video game style movie with some good fight scenes. As ridiculous as it was, it didn't get to the point where it got ludicrous or very dumb. Sequels that fix the flaws of the first one is usually a good sequel. This one it adds to the flaws constantly to the point I couldn't help but laugh at how dumb this movie is. Yeah, sometimes movies go in a direction where you just have to just go with it. But because of the atmosphere of this flick it makes everything appalling. This review would get very long if I narrowed down every ridiculous scene in this movie. But one of them is when the bad guys lock Liam Neeson's character up and tie him to a bar. Now he is a guy that taken out plenty of the bad guy's men. But no one keeps a watch on him, this isn't "Austin Powers". Even "Austin Powers" makes a joke about those kinda scenarios. Sure if the movie gave the protagonist few rooms to maneuver around in, it would have been possible. But the way this movie goes is like the bad guy's blindfold themselves and ask Liam Neeson's character to escape and kill them, like a death wish or something. Watching this was like seeing "Grand Theft Auto" which doesn't work for a movie like this. I mean Liam's character and his daughter who is too old to still play that perky teenage girl. Goes around breaking every law in Istanbul. Some of the hand to hand fight sequences are cool to watch and it has it's moments especially near the end. But that isn't enough to make this movie any good. It's watchable and that is all.
5.9/10