Day 279: Taken 2

Directed By- Olivier Megaton

Writer(s)- Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

Starring- Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Serbedzija

Critics Review- "The one thing that comes across is Neeson's character really likes fighting Albanians."- Adam Graham "Detroit News" 

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 18% Audience- 76%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 1 1/2 stars

My Review-

This is set a few years after the events of the first movie and we thing that all is well with Liam Neeson and his family but nope, the same thing happens almost ALL OVER AGAIN. I was hoping maybe this one would be a little better, but it turns out I was wrong, well not in all parts of the movie. The action scenes were pretty cool and Serbedzija has always been a cool actor so I liked his part as the villain of the film. The acting was so so, and I really did not like Maggie Grace in the movie once again, it seems to me like she at times will force her emotions or cannot make them believable, another thing I had a gripe with this movie is that at times it would be a little to slow or some of the acting did not see like it worked in certain scenes. I still want to know why the people this movie did not learn their lesson the first time and thought they could just "take" him without facing the consequences. Another thing about this movie that was kind of annoying, since it was almost like the first one, well same premise different country and events it was not that exciting at times, until Liam Neeson started killing people for trying to kidnap his "wife" and daughter. I suggest you wait to watch this movie when it is released on DVD, since its just and okay movie. All in all only the action scenes were the highlight of this movie and when also when they used the music from the movie Drive. Another thing I liked about this movie was like in the first movie, his friends were one of the most entertaining  parts even though they were in the movie less than a minute. So yeah this movie was just slightly better than the first one but at the same time was not all that great.