Bryan Mills is back...

Rating: 4/10 (12 October 2012)

One of the great pleasures coming of out the Besson/Kamen studios was the first Taken.
A lean & mean B action picture that moved like a speeding train through its storyline of a wayward ex CIA operative out to rescue his kidnapped daughter.
In this sequel, we have the Albanian underworld out for revenge for the body count Bryan left behind.
All in all a pretty solid plot for the sequel yet the writers fudge things up trying to replicate what the original was.
Instead of really coming to terms with what their lives would be like since their previous adventure, we have manufactured scenes of grenades being detonated to establish locations, a girl who continually fails her driving exam becomes a stunt driver extraordinaire when the need suits it & most glaringly omitted is the original's sense of forward progression & organic tension is left on the sidelines solely to feature routine gun fights & car chases.
A shame.