# Taken 2 (Spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 9, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taken-2-spoilers/637198 "2012-10-09T12:22:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taken-2-spoilers/637198/1 "2012-10-09T12:22:01Z")

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Did anybody else see Taken 2 over the weekend? I did and I thought it was pretty good. Spoilery thoughts in the next post.

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taken-2-spoilers/637198/2 "2012-10-09T12:29:35Z")

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Loved…

- the blowing up grenades to triangulate his position scene

- Neeson being a general badass

- an overall entertaining movie that wasn’t as good as the first, but was still pretty fun.

Umm…

- Maggie Grace looked too old to be his teenage daughter in the first Taken. Four years later for the sequel she’s pushing 30 and looks it. During the boat ride I thought she looked more like a trophy wife than his 18-year-old daughter

- A hotel that normally serves middle eastern royalty is going to let a sleazy dude in a tracksuit hang out in the lobby and read the paper? Yeah, no.

- Once again, Neeson’s friends don’t get involved. Boo!

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taken-2-spoilers/637198/3 "2012-10-09T12:47:35Z")

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> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> - A hotel that normally serves middle eastern royalty is going to let a sleazy dude in a tracksuit hang out in the lobby and read the paper? Yeah, no.

That sounds like middle eastern royalty, or at least their bodyguards, when not dressed for public appearances.

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taken-2-spoilers/637198/4 "2012-10-09T14:52:48Z")

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> [@D\_Odds](#):
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> That sounds like middle eastern royalty, or at least their bodyguards, when not dressed for public appearances.

You think Middle Easterners are sleazy?:dubious:

I thought it was not as good as Taken. Got too predictable at times. Would have been nice to see Famke Jenssen naked. And her character getting killed off.