the first movie was ok, it owed its great success completely to that phenomenal trailer where liam neeson tells off the men who kidnapped his daughter. that monologue was so fantastic that there was a lot of good will that this sequel played off of. the only problem is that the good will is pretty well wasted. this time neeson is in turkey on vacation with his daughter and ex-wife when the family of the kidnappers from the first movie decide they want revenge. as one would expect, superman neeson does everything he can to get his family out alive. the city of istanbul is beautiful, which gives the movie a cool backdrop, but the story and action itself is pretty bland. the only thing that keeps this one out of the garbage bin is just how cool neeson is. this is the role he was made for! though i didn't really care for this movie, i would certainly watch a 'taken 3' if they made one- just to see neeson do his revenge thing!
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