
Cinephobe Ep 165: Taken 2
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Movie Review - Liam Neeson - The Second Coming
The original was one of 2008's best movies directed by Pierre Morrell and written by Luke Besson with Robert Mark Cayman. In this sequel, Neeson and his wife are taken in Istanbul and the rest of the film is Neeson escaping and killing his abductors. This one, while tense, is loaded with some pretty silly things. I don't know which one is the silliest, so I'll just list a couple of them. The way he figures out where he is located after he and his wife were abducted and blindfolded is indeed ingenious. But when he starts looking for his wife, agility is strained to the breaking point.
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