Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Taken 2 (2012)
“Taken 2” is pure GOP
values: ’Merica is pure and strong, and every last Muslim is an evil perv-o killer, and women are helpless creatures who cannot drive a car or
plan a vacation without male supervision. Fox News would endorse it.
The themes are serious, I think. Liam Neeson again plays the ex-CIA agent who shoots,stabs, stomps, and rips apart dozens of evil foreigners to save his daughter
(Maggie Grace) and now kidnapped wife (Famke Janssen) from slavery. We’re in
Turkey and Islam looms like a disease, and every person of color -– be it police to hotel clerk -- is part of the conspiracy. Fox News. It’s all less than
90 minutes, so the trip is mercifully short, and Neeson is fast becoming a
thinking man’s Chuck Norris, even if the thinking is fascist and WASP.
To get a PG-13, director Olivier Megaton (his real name?) goes bloodless and when
necks break in Neeson’s fists, we hear no sound because snapping bone is
somehow more offensive than gunfire. The editing is terrible, and so is the slant that Neeson (wonderful actor) is taking onscreen. D+
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