Though Bryan, mid-kidnap, is able, via phone, to guide Kim, still back at the hotel, through her own escape. (Some people are so sensitive, sheesh!) Bryan, for all his badassery, is unable to prevent himself and Lenore being kidnapped by revenge-seeking Murad’s goons. (See note about tax credits.) And it turns out that one good thing about being an international sex-slaver, as Murad (Rade Serbedzija: In the Land of Blood and Honey, X-Men: First Class) is, is that you’ve got guys in every major European city who can be on the lookout for the guy who killed your sons just because your boys wanted to auction off a pretty white girl’s virginity.
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See, what little that happens is, not long after professional badass Bryan Mills (Neeson: Battleship, Wrath of the Titans) rescued his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, Knight and Day), from Albanian sex-slavers in Paris, the whole family - including Kim’s mom and Bryan’s ex, Lenore (Famke Janssen: X-Men: The Last Stand, Hide and Seek) - is in Istanbul. If the anemic attempt returning screenwriters Luc Besson ( Bandidas) and Robert Mark Kamen ( The Karate Kid) deploy is any indication, Taken 3 will be nothing but Liam Neeson running around whatever European city ponies up the biggest tax credits, growling and beating up random swarthy passersby who look at him askew. And it’s about what you might expect from a filmmaker who calls himself “Megaton.” It could also potentially be Megaton ( Colombiana) intending to be subtle. This is, I assume, director Olivier Megaton intending to be funny. They’ve got certain skills, you see, and they’re not afraid to use them.Īnd those certain skills appear to be a lack of peripheral vision, a tendency to keep one’s back turned to the direction danger is most likely to come in, and a refusal to heed one’s own guard dog when it is barking its doggy head off that “Liam Neeson is like right in the room, you idiots!”
If there’s one important lesson we can all learn from Taken 2, it’s this: Albanian sex-slavers are people, too, okay? Their mothers love them, and if you kill them, their fathers/bosses will hunt you down and kill you in return. (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) I’m “biast” (con): wasn’t a big fan of the first film I’m “biast” (pro): usually find Liam Neeson fun to watch