Shot in
Istanbul, Turkey and directed by Olivier Megaton , “Taken 2” reunites Liam
Neeson with his co-stars Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace in this rocket-paced
action sequel that rivals some of the greatest gun-handlers in cinema history.
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Neeson reprises the role of Bryan Mills, a father and an estranged husband who
would do anything for his family in the movie. Mills’ daughter having
been kidnapped the first time. But he faces a different kind of conflict in
“Taken 2.” 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
Albanian kidnappers. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears
revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in
Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape, and uses the same advanced
level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and then
systematically take out the kidnappers one by one.
“In the
first movie he's really a guy with nothing to lose. He's divorced, he's lost
his daughter, and you see his reaction when she's kidnapped,” explains Megaton.
“In this movie, he's got that relationship back and he's even flirting with his
ex-wife. It's almost cheesy, but that makes him all the more human at the
beginning of the movie, because he's not thinking about his training, he's
thinking about his family.”
But being
kidnapped once is unfortunate; twice is just careless. Rest assured, then, that
things play out differently in this sequel. “The powers-that-be–namely our
gracious leader Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen—have come up with a much
better plot than that,” assures Grace. “Someone has the notion of attempting to
abduct Bryan. It's a personal vendetta; someone bent on extracting recompense
from a man with a particular set of skills, as ill-advised as that might be. So
it's not a random second abduction of my character, Kim, which I think would be
everyone's first concern.”
“Taken 2” opens October in theaters from 20th Century Fox to be
distributed by Warner Bros.
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