Besson and Megaton have delivered a sequel that fails in every way to live up to its predecessor.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 23, 2022

Unfortunately this movie just gives us more of the same but at a much lower and lazier production level.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Unapologetically rehashes the concepts of the original while leaving out the fun parts.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 2, 2020

It's my guess that I'll be one of the few film critics who will give the film even a modest recommendation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 25, 2020

Blah and immediately forgettable.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 19, 2020

Megaton does give us some gorgeous wideshots, but they are in service of such an insufferable film that it all adds up to naught.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

This is a wildly absurd piece of cinema - so completely over the top and preposterous that it does manage to induce a bit of unintentional humor.

| Original Score: D | Apr 11, 2019

Mostly, Taken 2 is a violent but not-too-bloody popcorn movie, unambitious but well-made and moderately entertaining.

| Original Score: B | Jan 31, 2019

I liked every minute. Don't expect Shindler's List, expect Taken 2 and you won't be disappointed.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 19, 2018

This sequel barely uplifts itself from the predecessor blueprint as the acting is wooden, writing is pedestrian, editing is choppy and the cast looking like they would rather be attending a traveling clown rodeo in Tucson.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 19, 2018

A lazy, cynical film made for one reason only: to part you from your hard-earned cash. That all said, it holds one's attention surprisingly well.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2016

A sequel to a surprise but modest hit has no right to be this lackluster.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 17, 2016

More of the same, but what's in its favor, is Neeson's never-failing man's man toughness, which goes a long way in making for an entertaining film.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 24, 2014

The follow-up has less action, less energy, less Liam Neeson awesomeness - in other words less of everything that people liked about the first one.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 20, 2013

I surrender! I simply cannot absorb another fist, bullet or knife thrust into my atrophying brain by a hyperventilating Liam Neeson in the name of his stupid, twitty movie daughter, Kim.

| Original Score: D | May 26, 2013

"Taken 2" is really, really goofy -- it's even goofier because it thinks it's about the futility of vengeance -- but Liam Neeson almost makes you buy it.

| Feb 12, 2013

Taken 2 is content to play out as a familiar and lesser version of its predecessor.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 4, 2013

Good action. Neeson rocks as the death-dealing American ex-spy. What else do you need? Maybe "Taken 3″ isn't such a bad idea.

| Original Score: B | Jan 27, 2013

Taken 2 is a pointless sequel that tries to capitalize on everything that worked in the first film, without actually including any of it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 21, 2013

This is a halfway decent action film, but I do hope if they make another sequel of this, they make a better one.

| Original Score: C | Jan 7, 2013