Cheesy!

Rating: 4/10 (14 October 2012)

Without the first movie, this one would be a total failure, yet due to the repeating characters its somehow watchable. Just that this movie is to the contrary of Taken a very cheesy rip-off.
Maggie Grace, as cute as she is, is nerve recking, how an almost 30year old can play an 18year old is anyway a mystery. Liam Neeson looks sometimes so bored around like I looked when watching the movie, wishing it would be over. And then the villains, at first mean and smart and then miraculously dumb and weak.
Its for the 13year old movie goers probably great entertainment, but for the bit older ones I would advise From Paris with Love, same fast paces, same Producer, same type of non-sense making and yet a way better entertainment.
IF I would not like Neeson so much, I would give this at most a 2 and I hope he gets 20-30million to make the third installation, yet it actually can only get better from here on. In the end it was anyway just about the money....