Taken 2 (2012)

All Critics (162) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (128) | DVD (1)

A sloppy, lazy, unintentionally laughable sequel.

October 14, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper.com

Top Critic

A meta-American movie, a Godardian spoof of the whole genre, an attempt to see how stupid and insulting a motion picture can be and still be a big hit.

October 7, 2012 Full Review | Comments (49)

Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

Top Critic

Taken 2 is more of the same, except a little bigger, a little dumber, and a little less invigorating.

October 7, 2012 Full Review | Comments (9)

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

So lazily put together that it relies on flashbacks from its predecessor for the majority of its character development.

October 5, 2012 Full Review | Comments (7)

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

Neeson, despite having turned 60 in June, looks spritely enough in the role, and more than capable of another go-round should Taken 2 match its predecessor's success.

October 5, 2012 Full Review

Charles Gant

Variety

Top Critic

As much as this picture is action driven, its greatest delights are grounded in personality, in the fun of having a protagonist who combines homespun values with velociraptor functionality.

October 5, 2012 Full Review

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

I surrender! I simply cannot absorb another fist, bullet or knife thrust into my atrophying brain by a hyperventilating Liam Neeson in the name of his stupid, twitty movie daughter, Kim.

May 26, 2013 Full Review

Al Alexander

The Patriot Ledger

"Taken 2" is really, really goofy -- it's even goofier because it thinks it's about the futility of vengeance -- but Liam Neeson almost makes you buy it.

February 12, 2013 Full Review

Tim Grierson

Deadspin

Taken 2 is content to play out as a familiar and lesser version of its predecessor.

February 4, 2013 Full Review

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Good action. Neeson rocks as the death-dealing American ex-spy. What else do you need? Maybe "Taken 3″ isn't such a bad idea.

January 27, 2013 Full Review

Paul Chambers

Movie Chambers

Taken 2 is a pointless sequel that tries to capitalize on everything that worked in the first film, without actually including any of it.

January 21, 2013 Full Review

Jeremy Lebens

We Got This Covered

This is a halfway decent action film, but I do hope if they make another sequel of this, they make a better one.

January 7, 2013 Full Review

Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

More is definitely less in this sequel.

November 26, 2012 Full Review

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

Yeah, 'Taken 2' is pretty much the same movie that 'Taken' was. Like its predecessor, it's preposterous and over-the-top. And, boy, is this actioner ever just plain fun.

November 20, 2012 Full Review

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

If there were any justice in the world, this would be the movie inspiring mass riots. It's that bad.

November 8, 2012 Full Review

Rebecca Cusey

Patheos

On the evidence of this cheesy sequel, Neeson is in danger of becoming the new Steven Seagal.

October 30, 2012 Full Review

Andy Lea

Daily Star

Despite some pretty silly plot holes, this is a relatively entertaining hour and a half.

October 21, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tony Medley

Tolucan Times

If you lie with dogs, you get fleas; if you go to Europe with Liam Neeson, you get kidnapped.

October 19, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

... less credible, less suspenseful and less satisfying than it was before.

October 18, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

Unfortunately -- and somewhat embarrassingly for the human race -- there appears to be a sizable market for movies as blitheringly idiotic as this.

October 17, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Like American filmmakers, it seems the French don't know when to quit, either.

October 14, 2012 Full Review

Dan Lybarger

KC Active

There's an endless car chase that somehow manages to run 100 minutes in a 90-minute movie. Unless my math is way off, in which case it just felt that way.

October 12, 2012 Full Review

Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

Hard-luck bodyguard Liam Neeson is back in action, this time tracking down his abducted wife in Istanbul in an efficient sequel to the hit Taken.

October 12, 2012 Full Review

Daniel Eagan

Film Journal International

Still delivers what the fans want to see: Liam Neeson being a total badass.

October 11, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Liam Maguren

Flicks.co.nz

Neeson Caters to his Audience in Taken 2.

October 11, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Charles Koplinski

Illinois Times

• 1. Bryan Mills: My turn.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (6 months ago)
• 1. Bryan Mills: If I kill you, your other sons will come and seek revenge?
  2. Murad: They will...
  3. Bryan Mills: And I will kill them too.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (6 months ago)
• 1. Bryan Mills: Listen to me carefully, Kim. Your mother; is going to be taken. And people are gonna come for you to.
  2. Kim Mills: What are you gonna do?
  3. Bryan Mills: What I do best.
  – Submitted by Carlo Roy R (6 months ago)
• 1. Bryan Mills: Well you succeeded.
  – Submitted by DAVID A (8 months ago)
• 1. Lenore: You're not the only one with the moves around here.
  2. Bryan Mills: Apparently so.
  – Submitted by Augusta M (8 months ago)
• 1. Kim: Hey Dad, please don't shoot this one - I love him!
  – Submitted by Augusta M (8 months ago)