MASSIVE opportunity wasted.

Rating: 3/10 (7 October 2012)

saw Taken 2 last night and it left me and my mate annoyed to say the least. It was actually pretty ludicrous and there was so many stupid things in this movie it was unreal. Bryan Mills from the first one is gone! He tells his daughter who he knows is going to be taken by the bad guys to go to his room where they will of course look for her and hide in the closet! How many hundreds of times have we seen that. Bryan gets his daughter to let off 3 grenades in the city only checking once for a safe place to do so. Bryan is fooled by the old lets put your wife in view seemingly looking dead for you to drop your guard trick. Bryan and his wife are taken, blindfolded and taken on a journey to a holding place, they even go on a boat but When Bryan contacts his daughter and enlists her help he only ends being a couple of blocks away and his daughter doesn't even go near a boat. The whole thing is terribly frustrating, the drama and tension from the first is gone everything is totally predictable. When the action starts the camera work is bad and it's hard to tell whats going on in the fights whereas in the original you can see all the moves Bryan makes, methodically breaking down his opponent. Even the acting is bad in this, mainly in the moments involving Neeson, Famke Jansen and Maggie Grace, it felt so forced and awkward, no chemistry between them whatsoever. I wanted to love this movie and came away feeling it was just plain bad. The 12 certificate didn't help, no blood, no gore no brutality, Jansen has her neck cut and is hung upside down so the blood will leak out but we don't see a trickle. Man I could go on and on and on, gutted this was such a waste of £9. Neeson looked bored and fed up just as he did promoting it on Jonathan Ross. Wait for DVD rental or even download for nothing and save your cash.