Taken 2 Reviews
Deadspin
"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.
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Taken 2 is content to play out as a familiar and lesser version of its predecessor.
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| Original Score: C-
Movie Chambers
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.
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| Original Score: B
We Got This Covered
Taken 2 is a pointless sequel that tries to capitalize on everything that worked in the first film, without actually including any of it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Laramie Movie Scope
This is a halfway decent action film, but I do hope if they make another sequel of this, they make a better one.
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| Original Score: C
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
More is definitely less in this sequel.
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| Original Score: C
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Patheos
If there were any justice in the world, this would be the movie inspiring mass riots. It's that bad.
Daily Star
On the evidence of this cheesy sequel, Neeson is in danger of becoming the new Steven Seagal.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Tolucan Times
Despite some pretty silly plot holes, this is a relatively entertaining hour and a half.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
If you lie with dogs, you get fleas; if you go to Europe with Liam Neeson, you get kidnapped.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Sacramento News & Review
... less credible, less suspenseful and less satisfying than it was before.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Unfortunately -- and somewhat embarrassingly for the human race -- there appears to be a sizable market for movies as blitheringly idiotic as this.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
KC Active
Like American filmmakers, it seems the French don't know when to quit, either.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticA sloppy, lazy, unintentionally laughable sequel.
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| Original Score: .5/5
Creative Loafing
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Film Journal International
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.
Flicks.co.nz
Still delivers what the fans want to see: Liam Neeson being a total badass.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Illinois Times
Neeson Caters to his Audience in Taken 2.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4.0
Boston Phoenix
Megaton ... could use some more lessons in directing as he bombs in his strained efforts to recreate Pierre Morel's original.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
