![]() ![]() Taken 2 is more of the same, except a little bigger, a little dumber, and a little less invigorating. Taken 2 was given a more prestigious October release date and North American viewers were not left waiting around for months to experience Liam Neeson's latest adventures in ass kicking. The one exception, director Pierre Morel, was replaced by Olivier Megaton who, like Morel, has a long-term relationship with producer/co-writer Luc Besson (the French Jerry Bruckheimer). Pretty much everyone returned with enhanced pay checks. Taken 2, one of those sequels that exists purely because its predecessor made money, received A-list treatment. opening occurred months after it had bowed in Europe. $145 million later, Fox had a different opinion of the French-made film, whose U.S. The original Taken, released in the United States in early 2009, was never intended to be anything more than a January throw-away.
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