viernes, 12 de octubre de 2012

Review: Taken 2 is Explosive Entertainment

As silly sequels to mindless hits go, "Taken 2" is fairly entertaining, at least for a while. The first movie, of course, was a surprise smash in 2009 and, at $145 million (in the US alone) Liam Neeson's biggest success as a solo star. It earned its small place in the annals of pulp cinema with that quiet but urgent speech, featured in every trailer and TV spot, in which ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills (Neeson) assured the kidnappers of his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) that he would soon be using his "very particular set of skills" to hunt down and kill them. Which, in fact, he did. A hit that big is going to have a sequel. Enough time has passed since the first "Taken" that Bryan's hot ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen), has broken up with her second husband and may be ready to become not so much "ex," and sexy Kim has an irrelevant boyfriend. You might think this family would confine its vacations to the Caribbean and the occasional cruise to Alaska, but when business brings Bryan to Istanbul — because that's a place always known for its placid nonviolence — he invites ex and daughter to join him. This inevitably alerts the antenna of Murad Krasniki (Rade Serbedzija), the vengeance-seeking father of one of the hoods Neeson bumped off the last time, and before long another quiet but urgent phone call is needed. Except this time there is a bit of a twist, and it's a good one by the standards of this genre. Instead of daughter Kim being taken, it's Bryan himself who's captured along <b>...</b>
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