If your e-mail address is rejected, please contact the administrators on the infrastructure Matrix channel, or reach out via e-mail. 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). Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself "taken" hostage along with his wife. But after Bryan kills several people involved in Kim's abduction, Jean-Claude tries to trap Bryan and have him arrested. 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. Include your desired username and your account will be created manually. 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).
Mills: But they sell young girls to Arabs!! And where Taken 2 is concerned, plot or no plot, watching Liam Neeson kick butt is always going to be worth it! After a key is added in the profile settings, it may take up to 20 minutes before your account limits are updated. 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. 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.
1 hr 32 min PG13 HD SD. 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. Before your accent or logic do. Thou shalt have stupid bad guys Of course, this is an obsolete argument, because if the bad guy was intelligent, the good guy would die and more than anything else, there would be no more sequels. Sort of Every mainstream Hollywood movie depends as much on its big-budget special effects and action as it does on its dialog. 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. Mills: You know what, just kill me. Taken 2 has a lot of those, and that's always, always a good thing.
Screen Pass Eligible: Yes. Resolution, color and audio quality may vary based on your device, browser and internet More. 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. 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? Bad guy: I don't care, they were my sons! In 2015, Janssen appeared for 10 episodes as death row attorney Eve Rothlo during the second season of the popular series "How to Get Away With Murder. 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. Please don't request a GNOME Account unless you have contributed to an existing GNOME project for a medium/long term period of time. 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. Confirm current pricing with applicable retailer. Rotten Tomatoes® Score. 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.
Or else why would the bad guys spend approximately 15 minutes of screen time looking for Mills' daughter — after he called her in front of them and told her to hide in the closet? For over 25 years, Neeson acted in a variety of roles: a Nazi in "Shining Through" (1992), a German businessman who saves the lives of his Jewish workers in "Schindler's List" (1994), and a sage Jedi in "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace. Now they're coming for him. Critics Consensus: Taken 2 is largely bereft of the kinetic thrills -- and surprises -- that made the original a hit. The actor will next appear in three projects including the crime thriller "The Knife Thrower" and the drama "The Myth of Mathew. Neeson has been open about the loss of Richardson in the years since.
And after all, the most he could have been doing on the call was call reinforcements, right? Following "Taken, " which earned $226. Bad guy: BUT THEY WERE MY SONS. This, of course, is painfully obvious in Taken 2, where the plot is exactly as elaborate as the movie's poster tagline: They want revenge. 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). All transactions subject to applicable license terms and conditions. Answer: In LOTS of unapologetic, in-your-face action and kickass action. Create a new GNOME GitLab account here.
If you used it to sign in, set your initial password. Passwords can be recovered following these instructions. 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*). Thou shalt substitute intelligence with action. 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. © 2012 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The action-thriller film starred Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, and Maggie Grace. 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. But "Taken" took the Oscar-nominated actor's career in a different direction, establishing him as a bonafide action star.
Chokes with laughter*. "Taken" was released in US theaters on January 30, 2009. Okay, maybe I paraphrased that last bit, just a little bit. Sam is one of Bryan's former US government colleagues, who has since turned to private security with several men. 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.
Users without SSH keys cannot fork or create new projects. 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. Sorry, I couldn't get through with that sentence with a straight face. 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. Captions:English, Spanish. First they took his daughter. He is part of the security detail assigned to protect Sheerah, a young pop star, at the start of the film. The only thing thinner than this plot is the IQ of the mafia, which brings us to the next point. Thou shalt have fiery dialogue exchanges. "She always packed so much into every day, Natasha, that maybe she knew she wasn't destined to be on this Earth for a long period of time, '" he said during a "60 Minutes" interview in 2014. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers. Besides appearing in the two "Taken" sequels, Orser has kept busy with roles in TV series, including "24, " "Ray Donovan, " and "Berlin Station. Janssen has at least four projects in the works, including the action thriller "Boy Kills World, " with Bill Skarsgård, and the adventure film "Knights of the Zodiac, " costarring Sean Bean. External identity providers such as Google and GitHub have been disabled due to an influx of spam.
Genre:Action, Thriller. 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. One of Sam's former colleagues and friends, Casey is a part of Sam's private security team. A former field agent and old friend of Bryan's, Jean-Claude initially offers Bryan a tip about Kim's Albanian kidnappers.
Welcome to GNOME GitLab. 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). He rescues Kim after tracking down and killing her Albanian kidnappers and the man who purchased her. It would much rather make another movie out of it, which could have its own sequel with no plot! 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.
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