If you didn’t see Liam Neeson in 2008′s Taken you really missed out. OK – it wasn’t quite Oscar worthy but it was darn fun and full of some badass action. You could probably already guess from the title that the movie is about a kidnapping. Liam Neeson’s daughter is abducted by sex trade ring while he’s on the phone with her. He then switches into a badass and goes throughout Europe to search for her all the while killing every bad guy in sight. He has a certain set of skills … (movie reference). Not a lot of character development but a lot of fight scenes. In the end he saves his daughter and lives happily ever after. Thankfully it ended that way because now we get a sequel. The Taken 2 trailer was just released.
From the looks of it the movie seems to be badass again. In the 2 minutes and 23 seconds of the trailer we can tell that the movie is a direct sequel. It seems that the leader of the crime syndicate is upset that Liam Neeson killed all his men and now wants to exact his revenge. This time when his daughter and wife visit him unexpectedly on a trip the wife is abducted. My guess is that again Liam will kill every bad guy in his way and the body count will be high. Maybe they’ll both be taken. I’m going to line up to see it. Probably won’t be an Oscar winner but it’ll be fun. Liam’s action has come a long way since his role as Qui-Gon Jin in Star Wars Episode I and he’s totally believable. Check out the trailer below. Are you excited?