Taken 2 Reviews
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
ScreenRant
It's unlikely that moviegoers will be quite as taken by the experience this time.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Flix Capacitor
While some viewers find the original Taken as a plotless Euro-thriller and other defend it as a modern action classic, Taken 2 is likely to please neither.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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
Little White Lies
Unnecessary, perfunctory, ramshackle: Taken 2 is all these things and less.
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| Original Score: 1/5
We Got This Covered
If you love Taken for NOTHING but Neeson's action chops, chances are you'll be adamantly indifferent about Taken 2. For the rest of us, it's the sequel we all saw coming, unfortunately with the outcome we also expected.
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| Original Score: 4.5/10
Examiner.com
This sequel just comes off as rushed and very lazy in terms of plotting. If [the writers] had taken their time with it, they would have seen that the story is full of holes and that it was lacking the essential elements to engage the audience once more.
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| Original Score: 2/4
John Hanlon Reviews
The rare sequel that inadvertently plays as a spoof of its predecessor.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
NECN
Revenge is a dish best served riotously laughable.
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| Original Score: D
HeyUGuys
Most definitely not the great sequel that we were all hoping for. Way too dumbed down to fit in with a rating certificate and very disappointing.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Schmoes Know
This felt like watching the US blow the Ryder Cup. Everything that could go wrong did, anytime there was a chance to make a play it failed, and the participants looked like they really didn't give a shit.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Schmoes Know
Why are the bad guys going after him at all? They know what he can do. Just avoid him; if you do go after him don't kidnap his family, you just kill them. Morons. Oh, and then Maggie Grace throws grenades off the roof.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
2UE That Movie Show
After seeing Taken 2, you'll feel as if your time and money has been kidnapped, drugged and forced into the sex trade.
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| Original Score: 1/5
What Culture
Liam Neeson is back for more Albanian mayhem in a dire and bloodless re-hash.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
Some of the basic pleasures of the original remain intact (nobody shoots up a small room of bearded Eastern European men like Neeson), but ultimately the film feels compromised.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Irish Times
The fight moves are so brief and contained that Angela Lansbury could manage them without risk of hernia.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Taken 2, taken to where? Taken to the cleaners? In the original movie, Bryan Mills had 96 hours to save his daughter, in the sequel it seems like they have spent 96 minutes on the script.
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| Original Score: 3/10
TheShiznit.co.uk
When Liam Neeson uses his set of skills to hunt you down, it turns out that what he'll do is nothing compared to the butchering you'll receive in the editing suite afterwards
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top Critic"Taken 2" is nothing more than a naked cash grab.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
