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See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Official Trailer. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Maggie Grace Kim as Kim. Famke Janssen Lenore as Lenore. Leland Orser Sam as Sam. Jon Gries Casey as Casey. David Warshofsky Bernie as Bernie. Holly Valance Sheerah as Sheerah.

Katie Cassidy Amanda as Amanda. Xander Berkeley Stuart as Stuart. Marc Amyot Pharmacist as Pharmacist. Arben Bajraktaraj Marko as Marko. Michel Flash Gio as Gio. Nicolas Giraud Peter as Peter. Rubens Hyka Leka as Leka. Pierre Morel. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart.

Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free.

The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. They took his daughter. He'll take their lives. Rated PG for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language. Did you know Edit. Trivia Liam Neeson expected the film to bomb, but he signed on in order spend four months in Paris and learn karate, while playing the kind of role he had rarely been offered in the past.

Ironically, not only was the film a massive hit, but created a new on-screen image for Neeson as an action hero. Goofs When Bryan is chasing the sheik's barge along the Seine in his car, he appears to be traveling at high rate of speed alongside the barge. The barge would likely be traveling around 5 knots, about the speed of a light jog.

The speed limit for boats on the Seine is 15 knots, about 17 mph , so even if the boat could somehow travel at the maximum speed for the river which would be impossible for a boat like that , it would still be at a crawl for a car. Quotes Bryan Mills : I don't know who you are. Alternate versions Some of the shoot outs, the torture scene and some fisticuffs have been shortened in length for the film's US release to secure a PG rating.

The run time difference to the international version is about three minutes. User reviews 1. Top review. Step aside Bond and Bourne Niam is better!

The Arab heavies must have a family, right? And, as we all know, them Arab camel drivers are all tribal and everything so we'll have the pater familias seek revenge.

An eye for an eye, said Hammurabi, also a camel driver. And who's to object? Everybody has long forgotten George W. Bush's announcement that "we are not at war with Islam. Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out. They're not good for anything except oil and falafels. We can almost hear the slight whir of well-practiced gear wheels in the Hollywood studios.

For a brief period it was the South American cartels. For an equally brief interval it was the Albanians because who the hell knows where Albania is? The blockbuster "Die Hard" had a German gang but some of them spoke Russian. The executives couldn't make up their minds which was the better villain. I've kind of skipped the plot because it's an hour-and-a-half burden of meretricious crap. You've seen it all before -- the car chases, the lightning-fast karate blows, the gun skittering along the floor, the horrible deaths of broken necks, shattered bodies, and blood-splattered walls.

The climax is emblematic. Neeson is holding a pistol against the head of the last villain, the most important, the old man whose family was decimated. Neeson offers to put the gun down if the old chap will give his word that the vendetta is now at an end.

The old man gives his word. Neeson put down the gun and turns to leave. The old man picks up the gun, aims it at Neeson's back, and pulls the trigger. The Baba should have seen that coming.

I guess they don't get out to the movies much. Of course, Liam Neeson, whom I like a lot, is an unpretentious actor and has a remarkably endearing nose. He hulks his way through this paranoid fantasy with no martial arts skills but with a seasoned editor who knows how to make it look as if Neeson did have them. Nice scenery -- shot in Istanbul.

Otherwise, spend your time more constructively. Tweekums 22 January After the events of the first film, where protagonist Bryan Mills rescued his daughter from Albanians in Paris, the relatives of the criminals he killed are determined to get their revenge.

To that end they chase and catch Byran and his ex-wife Lenore as they holiday in Istanbul. They also intend to take his daughter but he manages to call her and warn her. He gets free and using a secret phone he manages to guide her to his location so she can bring him a gun. Then he must get her to safety, return for his wife and make sure those seeking revenge can never threaten his family again. This film is basically more of the same so if you enjoyed the first film you'll probably enjoy this.

As before it requires one to suspend ones disbelief more than a little as Bryan once again dispatches numerous Albanian thugs. This time we also have to believe that his daughter can get in on the action as she first gets a gun to him then drives him through the backstreets of Istanbul at speed while the kidnappers are in hot pursuit. Once the action starts it is fairly non-stop and exciting with lots of fighting and shooting.

Liam Neeson continues to impress in the lead role and the rest of the cast are good enough. Overall this isn't a must see but it passes the time nicely if you are a fan of the genre. Thrilling and violent movie with a phenomenal Liam Neeson as merciless avenger father. First they took his daughter , now they're coming for him. Retired CIA operative Mills Liam Neeson invites his teenage daughter Kim and his ex-wife Lenore, who has separated from her second husband, to spend a couple of days in Istanbul where he is working.

In Istanbul, Bryan Mills and his wife Famke Janssen are taken hostage by a kidnapper called Murad Krasniqi Rade Sherbedgia whose son Mills killed while rescuing his daughter, issues narrrated in the former installment. Bryan enlists his daughter to help them in getaway. Bryan swears revenge and retaliation against the kidnappers. He confronts his enemies in order to find out location his wife, and is forced to once again take up violent means to survive. He takes the law on his own hands and acting as a relentless revenger.

This stirring film contains intrigue , thrills, chills, frenetic action, shootouts and violent fights. From start to finish the noisy action and fast movement are unstopped. Liam Neeson acting as hard-rock , two-fisted retired agent is top-notch. Being well accompanied by Maggie Grace as daughter and Famke Janssen as his ex-wife , repeating efficiently their previous roles. Sweeney and Leland Orser , among others. Nice cinematography by cameraman Romain Lacourbas , using Steadicam and zooms with numerous locations from Istambul.

The musician Nathaniel Mechaly creates a thrilling , moving soundtrack fitting to frantic action. Lavishly produced by the successful French producer and director Luc Besson from his production company Eurocorps. Megaton was formerly a graffiti artist and took his name from his birthday : the 6th of August is the 20th anniversary of the dropping of the Hiroshima A-bomb. Rating: Better than average sequel , well worth seeing.

The picture will appeal to explosive action fans and Liam Neeson fans. Entertaining, but a bit of a let-down for me. TxMike 23 February I really like "Taken", I have seen it several times. But "Taken 2" is a bit of a disappointment for me. For one, it re-hashes in a sort of way everything Mills does in the first movie, using his superior training and experience to find the unfindable and to defeat any number of antagonists. And second, perhaps I am over-thinking this, but if his daughter already had been kidnapped in a foreign country, wouldn't he be more wary of taking her and mom to another foreign country, and take extra pains to assure their safety?

Anyway, Liam Neeson is back as Bryan Mills, his daughter has not yet passed her driving test, and that is an issue. Also the new boyfriend that Bryan has not been told about.

But that aside, and his ex-wife is having some difficulties with her current husband, the daughter and mom get invited to join him in Istanbul. Just for some fun. Maggie Grace is back as the daughter, Kim. And Famke Janssen as the mom, Lenore. Of course there would be no movie if everything went smoothly.

Instead the Serb father of one of the men Bryan had killed, the kidnapping mastermind, was following Bryan and his family to Istanbul, with the intention of kidnapping all three of them, then murdering them. But the story relied on Bryan's inventiveness to get free, then have his daughter explode some grenades so he could hear the sound delay and triangulation to have her find them.

Anyway it is all implausible but the "good guys" managed to come out on top. And Kim got plenty of driving practice in the stolen cab, evading police cars, so that when she got back to California she made a perfect score on her driving test.

Well I must say that I have somewhat mixed feelings about "Taken 2". On one hand, then it is an enjoyable and entertaining movie, but on the other hand, then then movie was somewhat unnecessary and sort of on the point of being too much. How is that?

Well, in the first movie they took his daughter, and now they take his entire family, what's next? They take their pets too? Story-wise, then "Taken 2" is sort of boiling soup off the broth that was made to make the first "Taken" movie.

It is entertaining, but the story is just too feeble and shallow, and it just doesn't come off as all that believable. The story is that while on an assignment in Istanbul, Bryan Mills's family get taken, and it becomes a joint-family effort to escape the clutches of the aggressor, who turns out to be the father of one of the bad guys from the first "Taken" movie. Sure, the plot here is not the best of plots, but the action scenes and sequences in the movie were nice, and there is a good amount of suspense to the movie as well, which in overall actually does make the movie rather enjoyable.

But if you are watching this for the story, you might find yourself cheated. As for the actors and actresses in the movie, well they all did good jobs with their roles, especially Liam Neeson, which wouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

His role as Bryan Mills is quite good, and he does play the role quite nicely. It is a great character with many layers to it, both as a security expert and a family man.

Often when a film is bad, the first audiences will say, "don't waste your time," but that didn't seem to happen.

We left Taken with Bryan Neeson and his ex-wife Lenore becoming friends again. Now Lenore and her husband have separated and he's canceled a huge family trip. Bryan invites her and Kim to come with him to Istanbul. Talk about a mistake. Murad Rade Sherbedgia , the father of one of the kidnappers killed by Bryan, wants revenge and sets out to kidnap the entire family.

His team of merry men manage to get Bryan and Lenore, but Maggie, warned by her father, escapes. Once he's kidnapped and he and Lenore are left alone, he manages to get some part of his phone and give her instructions.

After what she went through in Taken, I don't know how she kept so together. I would have been a zombie. Anyway, there's an enormous car chase that I thought was pretty neat and suspenseful.

I certainly agree this is no "Taken," and the script was slapped together when the first film made so much money. It's pretty flimsy. It's not terrible. That's what it's all about as Liam Neeson, his estranged wife and their daughter soon find a lot of intrigue while in Istanbul, Turkey.

There they are met by men wanting revenge for the killing of their sons by the Neeson character when they had kidnapped his daughter and attempted to sell her into a slavery market. We have chase scenes around the slums of the area with their convenient narrow streets. I almost felt it amusing when Neeson is giving his daughter instructions on how to find him and his wife. At a time like that, it's amazing to be talking about circumference, radius, as well as bomb throwing and running.

Kept me on edge throughout Gordon 19 March This film is about a retired CIA agent who gets targeted by the same crooks he encountered a few years earlier. The plot flows naturally, even with references to the first film thrown in. Action starts early in the film, and keeps on going with lots of adrenaline action. I particularly like the hunt for Mills by the daughter, it is clever and the subplot even appears logical! The only thing I found illogical was that the wife woke up so quickly with a full range of emotions, after being apparently being comatose, sleeping through the sounds of hundreds of gunshots.

Mills and his family are abducted by Murad Krasniqi Rade Serbedzja seeking revenge for the deaths of Kim's former kidnappers. Murad's Albanese gang are avenging the death of their leader's son. This time it will be Kim who helps to free her parents unleashing Bryan to turn the tables on the ruthless Murad and his minions. Plenty of action with precision violence.

Several degrees of brutality. Some sequences are highly intense and harsh. And what is not to like?! Other players: Leland Orser, D. Taken 2 is an action thriller that features Liam Neeson,who returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from kidnappers,in this sequel of the first film entitled,Taken.

It is directed by Olivier Megaton. During the ceremony, Murad Hoxha, the employer of the men and father of Marko, a victim whom Bryan killed by electrocution, states that they will find Bryan to avenge the deaths of their loved ones. When the father of one of the villains Bryan killed swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape.

Bryan then employs his unique tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers, one by one. Liam Neeson, despite having turned 60 in June, looks spiritedly enough in the role, and more than capable of another go-round should Taken 2 match its predecessor's success. Unfortunately,it is more of the same, except a little bigger and a little less invigorating.

This sequel is simply made for Neeson to cater to his fans as it just provides the viewer heavy doses of action to entertain. Overall,it is just a passable and entertaining sequel and nothing more.

Scarecrow 10 August Bryan Mills Liam Neeson is in Istanbul, protecting a sheik, about to return to the States after performing his duty, greeted surprisingly by his daughter, Kim Maggie Grace and ex-wife, Lenore Famke Janssen , deciding to accept his invite to join him in Turkey for this temporary assignment. Murad and his men arrive in Istanbul with one goal, to kidnap Bryan and his family with plans to execute them all.

The Turkish setting the rooftops, streets, and old buildings allows for some excitingly fresh environs, but I have to say that the story goes through the motions, with little time for Liam Neeson the actor to pull us into his emotional crisis.

Because there never seems to be a fear that his wife or daughter will perish at the hands of Murad and his Albanian thugs, and Bryan leaves their potential for harm freed from his mind so he can equip himself with the resolve and mental functioning needed to rescue them, Neeson barely has time to even scratch the surface of his acting capabilities and convey the turmoil that should exist in such a dire situation. And the need for Grace to portray a teenager when she's nearly as old as me she was born in '83 for crying out loud!

While I loved watching Neeson go to work because it's "what he does best", I do believe this should be his second and final film in the role; seeing him with so little to work with while Damon in the Bourne movies was equipped with some finely realized emotional scenes was rather frustrating to me. It is cool, sure, to see him walk into a room of thugs and out, them dead in less than 45 seconds, but the film poster offers so much more than Neeson ever gets a chance to provide sitting in a grueling slumped position of agony and exhaustion, having time to contemplate what's happened, the film doesn't afford him such a luxury.

Janssen has a tiny bit of time to openly express her second marriage's crumbling to a sympathetic Bryan, but she's primary held captive in a room with Murad and others threatening her Murad says he will send her back home in pieces , while Grace insists on helping Daddy get her back.

Eventually though, the film allows Bryan to shake off his daughter and take care of the bad guys with his superior fighting skills hand to hand combat and an exchange of gun fire and quick reflexes.

Walls and floors are unforgiving when Bryan bounces your body and head off of them with his swift accuracy and sharp martial arts skills. For whatever reason, though, the story itself or the characters really never quite match the scenes where Bryan annihilates his foes. It becomes a matter of survival and rescue. The taxi cab car chase, leaving behind a lot of vehicular and city structural damage, is a doozy, though.

Murad's son may've died horribly at Bryan's hands thanks to a seated electrocution , but there's very little sympathy for someone kidnapping girls and sending them off to be sex slaves, so the revenge angle is relatively weak This film follows closer to the action films of the 80s where logic and realism take a back seat to bodies smashing and cars crashing, so that alleviates some of the impact an actor of Neeson's caliber can bring to Taken 2. Like others, I view this as a missed opportunity, but its strengths are exciting.

LeonLouisRicci 23 February Preposterous picture that can leave you gasping at some of the "brilliant" methods used in this disappointing sequel. It all seems very rushed and haphazard and delivers a Film that in no way can be believed and so for that matter it flounders. There is enough action for the undiscerning but the spy's solutions are way too contrived and are at odds with even the most sophisticated advanced training. This shatters the suspension of disbelief quite readily and frequently and it wasn't really necessary.

If you can be taken in by unimaginable problem solving and routine car chases and jittery close up combat then this may be an acceptable accomplishment. It manages to lose all the tension from the first Film and plays fast and loose with the spy scenario and what remains is an inadequate and inferior sequel to an excellent Movie. CinemaSerf 12 October Their leader is seeking revenge on the man who caused the death of his son in the first "Taken" film Luckily, the daughter Kim" Maggie Grace manages to evade the hoodlums sent to capture her and her mother "Lenore" Femke Janssen , so is able to work with her father and help him thwart the plans of the baddies.

There is plenty of action, nothing original, but it isn't dull. The plot follows a path well trodden and the baddies, though thoroughly bad, are again pretty derivative. Neeson tries hard, but he cannot really carry this film on his own and that is pretty much what director Oliver Megaton is asking him do.

Nice locations, but frankly a sequel we just didn't need. Writer and producer Luc Besson has said that the latest Liam Neeson abduction opus "Taken 2" won't spawn a sequel.

Nevertheless, the prolific Parisian filmmaker might whistle a different tune after he scrutinizes the box office that this handy, white-knuckled thriller has drummed up. Since it debuted Friday, October 5th, "Taken 2" has taken twice as much as its exciting predecessor coined on its own opening day. Despite Besson's assurances to the contrary, co-scenarist Robert Mark Kamen and he have left "Taken 2" wide open for another sequel. This time around, Besson and Kamen have doubled the derring-do.

Not only do the villains want to nab the daughter again, but they also want the father as well as his estranged wife. Director Olivier Megaton, who helmed "Transporter 3" and "Columbiana," doesn't let anything stand in the way of Neeson as he shoots, stabs, and slugs his way through even more Albanians in this formulaic shoot'em up that never squanders a second of its pared down minute running time.

Although it isn't as suspenseful as the original "Taken," "Taken 2" serves up more than enough outlandish action with some very obnoxious villains, including distinguished Croatian actor Rade Serbedzija, who take liberties with Neeson's co-star Famke Janssen.

Chief among the assets of this sequel are its atmospheric Istanbul locations, particularly the Suleymaniye Mosque, the Grand Bazaar and the Bosphorus. Maggie Grace sprints across some impressive Turkish architecture with villains nipping at her heels while our hero plunges into some claustrophobic settings in search of his ex-wife.

During the funeral, Murad Krasniqi Rade Serbedzija of "Batman Begins" vows to wreak vengeance on Mills for slaying his good-for-nothing son as well as the sons of his dastardly relatives. Although Lenore and Bryan are divorced, this doesn't keep Kim from playing Cupid when she sends them off together for their own sight-seeing tour of Istanbul.