Nikhil Taneja () For more reviews: Since its release, the cast has gone on to star in other movies and TV shows. When the father of one of the villains Bryan killed swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape. In Taken 2, Mills and his wife are kidnapped by the same guys — because they want to kill him for killing their relatives in the first movie.
Sam is one of Bryan's former US government colleagues, who has since turned to private security with several men. Please don't request a GNOME Account unless you have contributed to an existing GNOME project for a medium/long term period of time. "She always packed so much into every day, Natasha, that maybe she knew she wasn't destined to be on this Earth for a long period of time, '" he said during a "60 Minutes" interview in 2014. Thou shalt have foreign villains It has always made so much more sense to Hollywood to have villains who are not only menacing and evil, but talk in a language, that – HORROR OF HORRORS – they can't understand! Rabourdin, who reprised his role in "Taken 2, " has since appeared in more than 70 films and TV projects, including "Midnight in Paris" (2011), starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, and "Grace of Monaco" (2014), with Nicole Kidman. Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a 'particular set of skills' who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from kidnappers. He recruits Bryan for one four-hour stint at the start of "Taken" protecting Sheerah, a 25-year-old pop star. This, of course, is painfully obvious in Taken 2, where the plot is exactly as elaborate as the movie's poster tagline: They want revenge. An existing GNOME module maintainer or contributor will ask you to create a new account once the number of contributions / merge requests is enough to trust yourself to have direct commit access to the GNOME GitLab group. So it's important for villains to do daft things like not kill the good guy after they capture him because they want him to feel pain (*cough*, The Dark Knight Rises, *cough*).
Okay, maybe I paraphrased that last bit, just a little bit. First they took his daughter. And after all, the most he could have been doing on the call was call reinforcements, right? Taken 2 has a lot of those, and that's always, always a good thing. After Maggie is sold in an auction, Bryan rescues her aboard a boat.
Because if the studio had a script with a plot or a story of its own, why on earth would it waste it on a sequel? Answer: In LOTS of unapologetic, in-your-face action and kickass action. Bryan is a divorced, retired US government agent-turned-bodyguard who flies to Paris after his 17-year-old daughter Kim is abducted during a vacation in the city. Now they're coming for him. 1 hr 32 min PG13 HD SD. And where Taken 2 is concerned, plot or no plot, watching Liam Neeson kick butt is always going to be worth it! More on Rotten Tomatoes. Thou shalt have fiery dialogue exchanges. If you used it to sign in, set your initial password. One of Sam's former colleagues and friends, Casey is a part of Sam's private security team.
PRICING SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Since "Taken, " Janssen has reprised the role of Lenore in "Taken 2" (2012) and "Taken 3" (2014), as well as Jean Grey in "The Wolverine" (2013) and "X-Men: Days of Future Past" (2014). Captions:English, Spanish. Bad guy: I don't care, they were my sons! Sort of Every mainstream Hollywood movie depends as much on its big-budget special effects and action as it does on its dialog. Mills: You know what, just kill me. Established contributors can use their GNOME account (via the "GNOME Keycloak" login option), if they have one (see how to request a GNOME account).
Grace has appeared in over 30 film and TV projects since "Taken, " including the two "Taken" sequels and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" parts one and two. After Kim is kidnapped, Sam does some online sleuthing to identify her abductors. After flying to Paris with her friend Amanda, she's abducted by a group of Albanians who traffic and drug young women, selling them to the highest bidder. The action-thriller film starred Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, and Maggie Grace. The only thing thinner than this plot is the IQ of the mafia, which brings us to the next point. The French actor has at least four projects in the works, including the crime thriller "Fox Hunt, " which follows a Homeland Security agent who works with Hong Kong's Anti-Smuggling Bureau to investigate a car smuggling ring. After a key is added in the profile settings, it may take up to 20 minutes before your account limits are updated. Taken 2 takes this commandment and as a first, turns it uniquely over its head — in the movie, it's not just the good guy who can't understand the frightening foreign villains, apparently the hipster foreign villains can't understand him either (because learning English is so mainstream, yo). It's sort of stupid, isn't it? Before your accent or logic do.
While Neeson experienced professional success, tragedy struck almost two months after "Taken" debuted in theaters when his wife, actor Natasha Richardson, died after suffering a head injury while skiing. In the original, Taken, the daughter of a retired CIA agent, Bryan Mills (Neeson) is kidnapped by human traffickers and he has to use his "particular set of skills" to save her. Here's an example of the exact dialogue exchange the main bearded baddie has with Mills, after he has caught him and his wife, and is torturing them — with his accent, that is — rather than, you know, killing him: Bad guy: I will kill you because you killed my sons Mills: But they kidnapped my daughter first! Brace yourself for the Unrated Edition of Taken 2, with even more explosive action and thrilling suspense. "Taken" was released in US theaters on January 30, 2009. Bryan then employs his unique tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers, one by one. There's also a sixth, secret commandment here, which really isn't that much of a secret, or much of a commandment, for that matter. Genre:Action, Thriller. Welcome to GNOME GitLab. Bryan eventually learns where to find Patrice Saint-Clair, who runs the human trafficking ring, by visiting Jean-Claude's home, shooting his wife in the arm, and forcing Jean-Claude to find Patrice's address from the French Intelligence agency's database. The actor will next appear in three projects including the crime thriller "The Knife Thrower" and the drama "The Myth of Mathew.
Maggie is Bryan's 17-year-old daughter and an aspiring singer. If your e-mail address is rejected, please contact the administrators on the infrastructure Matrix channel, or reach out via e-mail. Having married a wealthy businessman after their divorce, Lenore and Bryan's relationship is sometimes acrimonious, but after Kim is kidnapped, she begs Bryan to rescue their daughter. Include your desired username and your account will be created manually. External identity providers such as Google and GitHub have been disabled due to an influx of spam. Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself "taken" hostage along with his wife. Confirm current pricing with applicable retailer. Passwords can be recovered following these instructions. But here's the level of daftness of the bad guys in Taken 2. In a major turning point of the movie (it's even in the trailer), Mills' ex-wife is held on gunpoint and he's asked to give up his arms and be taken, or his ex-wife dies.
Taken 2 (Unrated Cut). He takes his daughter back to the US, where she reunites with her mother and stepfather. Prior to "Taken, " Grace won a SAG award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series for portraying Shannon Rutherford, a survivor of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, in the hit series "Lost. Like a good estranged husband, Mills gives up his arms, but after making a minute-long phone call to his daughter in front of the bad guys, systematically explaining to her the situation he is in right now and what she needs to do to not get caught, as the understanding, well-intentioned bad guys wait for him to be done, because they probably have daughters too, you know. Release Date:October 5, 2012. Resolution, color and audio quality may vary based on your device, browser and internet More.
Besides appearing in the two "Taken" sequels, Orser has kept busy with roles in TV series, including "24, " "Ray Donovan, " and "Berlin Station. All rights reserved. Critics Consensus: Taken 2 is largely bereft of the kinetic thrills -- and surprises -- that made the original a hit. Or else why would the bad guys spend approximately 15 minutes of screen time looking for Mills' daughter — after he called her in front of them and told her to hide in the closet?
Here are five commandments that can come in handy for you too, whenever you make your hit Hollywood movie and are confused about what to do in the sequel: 1. Chokes with laughter*. Grace has three upcoming projects, including the thriller "Blackwater Lane" costarring Dermot Mulroney and Minka Kelly, and a comedy called "The Secret Art of Human Flight, " with Sendhil Ramamurthy.
His most recent projects include the now-canceled reboot of "American Gigolo, " starring Jon Bernthal, and a podcast series called "The Callisto Protocol: Helix Station. Thou shalt substitute intelligence with action. A former field agent and old friend of Bryan's, Jean-Claude initially offers Bryan a tip about Kim's Albanian kidnappers. But "Taken" took the Oscar-nominated actor's career in a different direction, establishing him as a bonafide action star. All transactions subject to applicable license terms and conditions. So Hollywood villains are generally outsourced cheap labour from Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East and South America (never India, because Indians probably don't have the time to be evil since they are so busy in taking over US jobs and driving cabs).
It would much rather make another movie out of it, which could have its own sequel with no plot! They chose the wrong guy. There was this bright light, and a tunnel, and it was dark and all of a sudden, my mind was filled with knowledge that helped me figure out the art of making a big-budget hit Hollywood film sequel. In 2015, Janssen appeared for 10 episodes as death row attorney Eve Rothlo during the second season of the popular series "How to Get Away With Murder. Neeson has six projects in the works, including the thriller "In the Land of Saints and Sinners, " costarring Kerry Condon, and "Retribution, " with Matthew Modine. Following "Taken, " which earned $226. Thou shalt have stupid bad guys Of course, this is an obsolete argument, because if the bad guy was intelligent, the good guy would die and more than anything else, there would be no more sequels. Janssen has at least four projects in the works, including the action thriller "Boy Kills World, " with Bill Skarsgård, and the adventure film "Knights of the Zodiac, " costarring Sean Bean. She also had roles in series such as "Californication" and "Fear the Walking Dead. But after Bryan kills several people involved in Kim's abduction, Jean-Claude tries to trap Bryan and have him arrested. Sorry, I couldn't get through with that sentence with a straight face. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers. Create a new GNOME GitLab account here. Actually, it's sort of genius, then!