Now Liam neeson returns in the role as Bryan mills and even though this performance is not as good as the original taken he tries his best with what he is given to make himself a badass. In the limited action scenes that he participates in he tries his best.
The supporting cast is not really the best at all, I do think famke Janssen has a decent performance in her role as her character actually becomes relevant in this film and she does a decent job. However, I said this in the first film that I did not really like Maggie Grace as the daughter and you can imagine my reaction when she was given a larger role in this film and I still don't like her and think her performance is weak. Now unlike the first film there is a clear villain in the film but he is just an idiot who allows neeson to totally destroy his plan easily..
The story was very simple in the first film but was very effective in my opinion. However, this film decided to get rid of the simplicity and make a convoluted film that limited the strengths of a film like taken and showed all the weaknesses.
The script in the first film and this film sees pretty realistic and how normal people would react to the crazy circumstances. This film has some of that but there is allot of rigid dialogue in the film due to the circumstances of the story.
The style is a mixed bag with some of the driving scenes and the action being really cool. But there is way too much downtime and bad unrealistic decisions taken for the film and also there is allot of shaky cam towards the end of the film.
Now before taken 3 I will probably review the original taken film but this film is just clearly average and not near the standard of the original. However, I am still looking forward to taken 3 because of the quality of the first film.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZ5sl2-bgU
This is the trailer for the film if you are interested in seeing it.
Final rating 5/10
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