Story of movie Taken 2 :
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. The film follows Bryan Mills taking his family to Istanbul, only to be kidnapped, along with his ex-wife, by the father of one of the men he killed while saving his daughter two years prior.
| Taken 2 | |
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Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Olivier Megaton |
| Produced by | Luc Besson |
| Written by | Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen |
| Based on | Characters by Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen |
| Starring | Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Famke Janssen Rade Šerbedžija |
| Music by | Nathaniel Méchaly |
| Cinematography | Romain Lacourbas |
| Edited by | Camille Delamarre Vincent Tabaillon |
Production company | EuropaCorp M6 Films Grive Productions Canal+ M6 Ciné+ |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45 million |
| Box office | $376.1 million |
It is the sequel to the 2008 film Taken and the second installment in the Taken trilogy. Released on 5 October 2012, the film grossed over $376 million at the box office, but received largely negative reviews from critics. A third film, Taken 3, was released on 9 January 2015.
Screenplay
At the funeral of his son Marko and associates in Tropojë, Albanian mafia head and low-lying freelance terrorist Murad Hoxha vows to seek vengeance on his son's killer. Travelling to Paris with his men, he interrogates and tortures former intelligence agent Jean-Claude Pitrel, whose business card was found at the scene of Marko's death, but finds no information. He then bribes a corrupt police official for Pitrel's files and deduces that Pitrel's old friend Bryan Mills was responsible and is in Istanbul.
Meanwhile, Bryan has just finished his three-day security job for a wealthy Arabian sheikh in Istanbul and is surprised by his ex-wife Lenore and daughter Kim. While going out for lunch with Lenore the next day, Bryan spots Murad's men following them. He tells Lenore to run and tries to shake the Albanians, but finally surrenders when they capture Lenore. Realizing that Kim is also a target, Bryan calls her at the hotel and tells her to hide, but then he is captured and knocked out. She narrowly avoids capture when the kidnappers are forced to flee after shooting two security guards.
Regaining consciousness, Bryan finds himself zip tied to a pipe over his head in an empty basement. He uses a concealed miniature cell phone hidden in his sock to contact Kim and instruct her to alert the American Embassy; instead she convinces him to let her help. Opening her father's equipment case, Kim takes a grenade and detonates it on a nearby rooftop; the resulting sound allows Bryan to instruct her on triangulating his location.
The mobsters bring in Lenore, cut her throat slightly, and hang her upside down to bleed out. As soon as they leave, Bryan frees himself and then her. He next has Kim detonate two more grenades and releases some steam through a chimney to guide her to his location. Kim tosses a gun down the chimney, which Bryan uses to kill his guards. He rescues Kim, but watches Lenore get recaptured. Stealing a taxi, Bryan and Kim pursue the kidnappers' van, whereupon an SUV, driven by one of the kidnappers' henchmen, arrives to distract them. A chase and shootout ensue, alerting Turkish police and ending when Bryan manages to lure the SUV into the path of an oncoming train, taking it out.
Leaving Kim at the U.S. Embassy, Bryan uses his memory to find Murad's hideout. He rescues Lenore and pursues the surviving mobsters to a bathhouse, where he kills them. Confronting Murad, Bryan offers to let him walk if he agrees to return home and cease his desire for revenge. Murad agrees and Bryan drops his gun, but the former goes back on his word and tries to kill Bryan, only to find the gun unloaded. Realizing that Murad will never drop his vendetta against him, Bryan kills him by impaling him onto a sharp towel hook.
Three weeks later, the Mills family is at a diner back in Los Angeles, having milkshakes to celebrate Kim passing her driving test. They are joined, much to Bryan's surprise, by Kim's boyfriend Jamie, to which she jokingly tells her father not to "shoot this one".
In an alternate version, Brian rescues Lenore after she is recaptured. The taxi chase then takes place with Brian, Kim and Lenore eventually making it to the U.S. Embassy. He then leaves them both at the Embassy to "finish it". Olivier Megaton decided against this version as questions arose over Brian's motivation for pursuing Murad. It is included as an extra on the DVD and Blu-ray releases.
- Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills
- Maggie Grace as Kim Mills
- Famke Janssen as Lenore "Lennie" Mills-St. John
- Rade Šerbedžija as Murad Hoxha
- Leland Orser as Sam Gilroy
- Jon Gries as Mark Casey
- D. B. Sweeney as Bernie Harris
- Luke Grimes as Jamie Conrad
- Olivier Rabourdin as Jean-Claude Pitrel
- Kevork Malikyan as Inspector Durmaz
- Luenell as Kim's driving instructor
Filming took place throughout early 2012; Neeson and Grace shot their scenes in January in Los Angeles. The Istanbul scenes were shot in November 2011. Some scenes were filmed during a week at the new film studios of the Cité du Cinéma founded by Luc Besson in Saint-Denis in France.
Music
Nathaniel Méchaly composed the score for Taken 2, which was released on 1 October 2012.
| Taken 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Film score by Nathaniel Méchaly | |
| Released | 1 September 2012 |
| Recorded | 2012 |
| Genre | Film score |
| Length | 53:15 |
| Label | EuropaCorp |
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Nathaniel Méchaly except where noted.
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