As expected, Liam Neeson kills everything

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2012)

The end of the world has come. It is Liam Neeson. Some misguided Albanians bring a small army to Istanbul in order to capture the man who killed the Albanians in the first movie. In doing so they upset security expert Bryan Mills and try to harm his family. He does "what he does best" in the capital of a mythical Turkey which is decades behind the civilised world and borders Albania, somehow.
Now, I didn't expect anything that what I got. Liam Neeson is great in the role of the obsessive dad and thorough killer. Every bullet is shot straight, every move is thought through and completely deadly. The action is great even if the specifics are pretty much a fairy tale. In the end, this is what Taken was, it would have been hard to believe the sequel is anything else.
Famke Janssen has the worse possible female role: a dead weight that just drags things along, has emotional outbursts and shouts "no" and "please don't" while her hero is saving her. At least the daughter's role was more active.