Taken for a ride more like......

Rating: 1/10 (13 October 2012)

Bryan Mills 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.....
Taking the prize for the most pointless sequel of the year, Taken 2 is simply a blatant cash in of the success of the first one.
That was a guilty pleasure and gave Neeson a career resurgence, but he hasn't looked this embarrassed since he was in The Haunting, but he rises above the filthy script and puts in an okay performance.
It's not the casts fault, it's the fact when you are watching the badly edited action scenes, you know someone somewhere is rubbing their hands thinking about 'The Extended Hardcore Torture Filled Party Edition' blu-ray and it makes one pretty fed up of Hollywood.
The story is scrappy and way too simple, and the narrative is blunderingly silly, do we really have to see another film where the villains leave to watch football so our hero can escape? And good old professional Mills gets his daughter to throw grenades so he can hear where she is, cheers dad.
When you realise that the films most tense moment is watching Kim parallel park, you know that your in trouble.
Like Mills says to the chief bad guy at the end 'I'm tired of all this'.