This movie again is one of the best pieces of cinema iv'e ever since. Liam Neeson has become my overall favourite actor due to these movies. The plot was just as well executed as the original and every character is unique in their role. I decided to score this a 9 as the fight scenes to me were a bit silly and a bit slapstick. However they are minor things considering the car chase is very well executed and is easily one of the best in action cinema. I really can't express my love for Liam Neeson as the character of Brian. This movie is an absolute beast. Definiatley worth a watch!

Cheap police vehicles, women walking around like ninjas, people not caring about explosions like it's a normal thing, this movie is absolutely a political slander attempt. Only giving it 2 stars because of my respect to the effort made creating it. The scenes in the US have bright - white filter, while the scenes in Istanbul have a dark filter. Yep, totally buying it! If you lob a grenade in Istanbul, and the whole PD will be after you. You lob the second one and a police sniper will pick you off. Istanbul is not a place where you can go Rambo. Maybe Beirut is, but Istanbul isnt.

OK, it's a sequel. But uniquely, it's actually rather good.OK, there are one or two clichés with that Romancing the ex-wife thing, but even so this is excellently written, and makes use of superb locations.It takes about 20 mins to really get going, and then you are on the edge of your seat. All the essential elements are there from any decent thriller, but you never find the movie formulaic.You probably know the good guys are going to win - they always do! - but even so the masterful direction manages to build suspense, and the ingenuity of our Hero when faced with his predicament is both novel and entertaining. A refreshing and fully engaging movie from a talented team of writer, director and cast.

Rather inevitable follow-up to "Taken" the movie that made Liam Neeson an unlikely action hero, like an older Jason Bourne, by which I men a bunch of bad men come after Liam's family, this time and mother makes three and live, or should that be die to regret it. There is a change of location to Istanbul which means we get some nice establishing shots of the city and one action chase across the rooftops to afford some nice views of the skyline.Otherwise, Liam is up to his usual tricks of being able to avoid bullets at will, kill a man by just laying his hand on his face, guide his daughter go the baddies lair by having her through grenades all over the city and best of all recreate the route back to the villains himself with a combination of super hearing and total recall which wouldn't embarrass a cross between Superman and Sherlock Holmes.Oh and there's lots of shooting, killing, fist fights and car chases, the silliest of which being when Liam's daughter tears across town driving like an Indy 500 veteran with her dad in the passenger seat, trying to avoid the pursuing would-be killers and achieving a death- defying race across a railway line which the other car doesn't...before she's even passed her driving-test.It's all unbelievable nonsense, directed at a furious pace with cross-cuts and multiple shots of the same scene, to a pounding musical backdrop just to further reinforce the feeling that you're actually in the middle of a shoot-em-up-cum-car-chase computer game.Neeson does his best latter-day John Wayne, but the incompetence of the baddies, plus they seem to have a far-from-threatening family ringleader means that the ending is never in doubt. In fact I'd go as far to say the beginning and middle were never in doubt either, if you've seen "Taken 1".Pretty predictable, passionless stuff all round I'd say.