Taken 2 (2012)

Directed by

Olivier Megaton

Genre

action film, vigilante film, crime thriller film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 7,157 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired CIA agent goes to Istanbul with his family. The father of a man he killed kidnaps him and his ex-wife for revenge, and he must escape and save them.

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What happens

Taken 2 is a 2012 English-language French action-thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Šerbedžija, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, D.B. Sweeney, and Luke Grimes. It follows retired CIA officer Bryan Mills as he ends up with his family in Istanbul, where he is kidnapped, along with his ex-wife, by the father of one of the men he killed while saving his daughter two years earlier. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Taken and the second installment in the Taken trilogy. Released on 3 October 2012 in France by EuropaCorp and 5 October 2012 in the United States by 20th Century Fox, the film grossed over $376 million at the box office, making it the highest grossing installment of the trilogy, but received negative reviews from critics. A third film, Taken 3, was released on 9 January 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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