Taken 2
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| Directed by | Olivier Megaton |
| Produced by | Luc Besson |
| Written 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 |
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20th Century Fox (US) EuropaCorp (France) |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45 million |
| Box office | $376.1 million |
| 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 |
Taken 2 is a 2012 English-language French action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton which stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Šerbedžija, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, D.B. Sweeney and Luke Grimes.
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. The film is set two years after the first film.
A third film, Taken 3, was released on 9 January 2015.
In 2011, at the funeral of his son Marko and associates in Tropojë, Albanian mafia head and freelance terrorist Murad Hoxha vows to seek vengeance on his son's killer. Traveling 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.
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