Wednesday, January 16, 2013

New Release Tuesday: Taken 2

Taken 2
I went in with low expectations with this sequel. I love the first one a lot. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Yes, it was kind of annoying in the beginning with all the sappy dramatic family stuff.  The ex wife is now separated from her new husband and starts getting closer with her ex husband again.  How original!  The daughter, despite going through a lot in the first film, still thinks she can go to another country with no worries.  So I wasn't into that early stuff.  But later, it picked up. There was three okay action scenes: the chase scene,  the escape scene and the final scene towards the end.  Other than that, the other scenes were just focused on the drama.  So, nothing new or exciting to add to this story.  Liam Neeson's character is more bad ass than Superman.  He just touches a person's face and that person dies.  That's what this movie showed anyway.