Taken 2: My Taken Identity

Rating: 4/10 (9 April 2011)

Well it's sort of like that and could have been a sequel although it would have been a bit too far fetched. When walking into the theater to watch this movie, I was at least hoping a movie that is in the level of Liam Neeson's past movie "Taken". Since the trailer to this movie looked sort of similar and all and even the main character seemed a bit similar. But it did not meet my expectation, and the friend I dragged to see the movie was constantly moving in his chair, checking his phone and taking a deep breath a few times. What I wanted was a simple action movie that has enough flare to be worth seeing in theaters. If it was paced a bit faster and had a bit more better action sequences and connected better and quicker, it might have not been as boring. But the thing is this movie is dull in a lot of parts, it wants to intrigue the audience with the mystery of what is really going on but it just doesn't really work all that well. The movie tries to focus more on the plot and mystery but it's all so darn dull most of the time and didn't really care what happened. The execution isn't even all that clever and relies way to much on amnesia in a very stupid manner, you will see when you watch the movie. Overall, it's a pretty disappointing movie. It wasn't really terrible or anything like that but it took some effort to finish it.
4.5/10