Chokes with laughter*. Genre:Action, Thriller. So Hollywood villains are generally outsourced cheap labour from Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East and South America (never India, because Indians probably don't have the time to be evil since they are so busy in taking over US jobs and driving cabs). Rabourdin, who reprised his role in "Taken 2, " has since appeared in more than 70 films and TV projects, including "Midnight in Paris" (2011), starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, and "Grace of Monaco" (2014), with Nicole Kidman. There was this bright light, and a tunnel, and it was dark and all of a sudden, my mind was filled with knowledge that helped me figure out the art of making a big-budget hit Hollywood film sequel.
Neeson has been open about the loss of Richardson in the years since. Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself "taken" hostage along with his wife. Grace has appeared in over 30 film and TV projects since "Taken, " including the two "Taken" sequels and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" parts one and two. Taken 2 takes this commandment and as a first, turns it uniquely over its head — in the movie, it's not just the good guy who can't understand the frightening foreign villains, apparently the hipster foreign villains can't understand him either (because learning English is so mainstream, yo). Gries has appeared in many TV and film projects since "Taken, " reprising his role as Uncle Rico in the short-lived animated series "Napoleon Dynamite" in 2012 and appearing for 30 episodes as Dr. Roberts in the show "Dream Corp LLC. An existing GNOME module maintainer or contributor will ask you to create a new account once the number of contributions / merge requests is enough to trust yourself to have direct commit access to the GNOME GitLab group. 8 million at the global box office, Neeson starred in two sequels, as well as action films like "The Grey" (2012), "Run All Night" (2015), "Cold Pursuit" (2019), and "The Marksman" (2021). Bad guy: I don't care, they were my sons! Since its release, the cast has gone on to star in other movies and TV shows. Neeson has six projects in the works, including the thriller "In the Land of Saints and Sinners, " costarring Kerry Condon, and "Retribution, " with Matthew Modine.
First they took his daughter. After Maggie is sold in an auction, Bryan rescues her aboard a boat. In the original, Taken, the daughter of a retired CIA agent, Bryan Mills (Neeson) is kidnapped by human traffickers and he has to use his "particular set of skills" to save her. "Taken" was released in US theaters on January 30, 2009. The French actor has at least four projects in the works, including the crime thriller "Fox Hunt, " which follows a Homeland Security agent who works with Hong Kong's Anti-Smuggling Bureau to investigate a car smuggling ring. If your e-mail address is rejected, please contact the administrators on the infrastructure Matrix channel, or reach out via e-mail. Passwords can be recovered following these instructions. Create a new GNOME GitLab account here. Sam is one of Bryan's former US government colleagues, who has since turned to private security with several men. Include your desired username and your account will be created manually. Since "Taken, " Janssen has reprised the role of Lenore in "Taken 2" (2012) and "Taken 3" (2014), as well as Jean Grey in "The Wolverine" (2013) and "X-Men: Days of Future Past" (2014). Please don't request a GNOME Account unless you have contributed to an existing GNOME project for a medium/long term period of time.
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 kidnappers. Nikhil Taneja () For more reviews: The only thing thinner than this plot is the IQ of the mafia, which brings us to the next point. There's also a sixth, secret commandment here, which really isn't that much of a secret, or much of a commandment, for that matter. His most recent projects include the now-canceled reboot of "American Gigolo, " starring Jon Bernthal, and a podcast series called "The Callisto Protocol: Helix Station. She also had roles in series such as "Californication" and "Fear the Walking Dead. Brace yourself for the Unrated Edition of Taken 2, with even more explosive action and thrilling suspense. He recruits Bryan for one four-hour stint at the start of "Taken" protecting Sheerah, a 25-year-old pop star. Bryan then employs his unique tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers, one by one.
No matter how badly you do, if the audience liked the first movie, it will watch the sequel and then wait for the threequel to buy the DVD box-set (guilty, as charged). External identity providers such as Google and GitHub have been disabled due to an influx of spam. Now they're coming for him. In a major turning point of the movie (it's even in the trailer), Mills' ex-wife is held on gunpoint and he's asked to give up his arms and be taken, or his ex-wife dies. Screen Pass Eligible: Yes. All transactions subject to applicable license terms and conditions. Thou shalt have foreign villains It has always made so much more sense to Hollywood to have villains who are not only menacing and evil, but talk in a language, that – HORROR OF HORRORS – they can't understand! Having married a wealthy businessman after their divorce, Lenore and Bryan's relationship is sometimes acrimonious, but after Kim is kidnapped, she begs Bryan to rescue their daughter. Grace has three upcoming projects, including the thriller "Blackwater Lane" costarring Dermot Mulroney and Minka Kelly, and a comedy called "The Secret Art of Human Flight, " with Sendhil Ramamurthy. Maggie is Bryan's 17-year-old daughter and an aspiring singer. Taken 2 has a lot of those, and that's always, always a good thing. Besides appearing in the two "Taken" sequels, Orser has kept busy with roles in TV series, including "24, " "Ray Donovan, " and "Berlin Station.
But here's the level of daftness of the bad guys in Taken 2. When the father of one of the villains Bryan killed swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape. Like a good estranged husband, Mills gives up his arms, but after making a minute-long phone call to his daughter in front of the bad guys, systematically explaining to her the situation he is in right now and what she needs to do to not get caught, as the understanding, well-intentioned bad guys wait for him to be done, because they probably have daughters too, you know. They chose the wrong guy. Prior to "Taken, " Grace won a SAG award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series for portraying Shannon Rutherford, a survivor of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, in the hit series "Lost. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers. In Taken 2, Mills and his wife are kidnapped by the same guys — because they want to kill him for killing their relatives in the first movie. Bryan is a divorced, retired US government agent-turned-bodyguard who flies to Paris after his 17-year-old daughter Kim is abducted during a vacation in the city. Answer: In LOTS of unapologetic, in-your-face action and kickass action. While Neeson experienced professional success, tragedy struck almost two months after "Taken" debuted in theaters when his wife, actor Natasha Richardson, died after suffering a head injury while skiing. After Kim is kidnapped, Sam does some online sleuthing to identify her abductors. Critics Consensus: Taken 2 is largely bereft of the kinetic thrills -- and surprises -- that made the original a hit. So it's important for villains to do daft things like not kill the good guy after they capture him because they want him to feel pain (*cough*, The Dark Knight Rises, *cough*).
Sort of Every mainstream Hollywood movie depends as much on its big-budget special effects and action as it does on its dialog. And where Taken 2 is concerned, plot or no plot, watching Liam Neeson kick butt is always going to be worth it! Because if the studio had a script with a plot or a story of its own, why on earth would it waste it on a sequel? Thou shalt have fiery dialogue exchanges. Taken 2 (Unrated Cut).
Established contributors can use their GNOME account (via the "GNOME Keycloak" login option), if they have one (see how to request a GNOME account). Bryan eventually learns where to find Patrice Saint-Clair, who runs the human trafficking ring, by visiting Jean-Claude's home, shooting his wife in the arm, and forcing Jean-Claude to find Patrice's address from the French Intelligence agency's database. But after Bryan kills several people involved in Kim's abduction, Jean-Claude tries to trap Bryan and have him arrested. Mills: But they sell young girls to Arabs!! Users without SSH keys cannot fork or create new projects. And after all, the most he could have been doing on the call was call reinforcements, right?
Sign in to create issues, write comments, review contributions, and more. After flying to Paris with her friend Amanda, she's abducted by a group of Albanians who traffic and drug young women, selling them to the highest bidder. All rights reserved. But "Taken" took the Oscar-nominated actor's career in a different direction, establishing him as a bonafide action star. Captions:English, Spanish. Mills: You know what, just kill me.