The Vidiot Reviews

Rating: 6/10 (17 January 2013)

Taken 2
The best thing about being abducted for a second time is that your pre-existing Stockholm syndrome will allow you to immediately bond with your captor(s).
However, the subsequent kidnapping in this action movie involves the parents of the previous victim instead.
Former CIA agent Bryan (Liam Neeson) meets up with his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) and their daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) in Turkey to sightsee.
But when the family of the men whom Bryan killed during Kim's kidnapping months earlier find him and Lenore on a date, they take them hostage.
Now it's Kim's turn - under her dad's directive - to wage a one-woman war against the armed abductors holding her parents captive.
Even though the violence remains rapid-fire, this initial continuation of the original lacks the same urgency, while the dialogue verges on sitcom-y.
Incidentally, what kind of idiot would ever want to hold a divorced couple hostage?
(Yellow Light)
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