Another miserable sequel

Rating: 2/10 (23 October 2012)

When I enjoyed the first taken I was surprised and although I don't normally follow the 'hype' I thought taken 2, bring it on. Oh dear. The plot is ridiculously predictable and any allusion that the film is 'funny' or 'poking fun at itself' is grossly overstated. This is a very poor movie with anachronistic sets, terrible action movie one-liners and some shocking fight sequences. By the end of the movie I was actually angry, this feels like a rushed together nonsense made to ride the tidal wave of the first movie, hmm, Hollywood aping on the success of a popular movie by making an asinine sequel, I won't hear it. Despite all of this, it's an entertaining hour and a half, just not of the quality that would bring anything like the 6.7 average rating it currently has. If this went straight to DVD or was a TV drama I would have been a bit more forgiving. A well spent 45 million dollars!