TAKEN 2

Liam Neeson returns in the sequal to 2009's hit Taken in Taken 2. The film is set a year after the first and Bryan (Neeson) is still very protective of his daughter after being Taken in the first film. At the start of the film we see that the families of the people he killed want him dead and plan to take him and his family and kill them.

 

The main story is set in Instanbul where Neeson's character is working and when his family come out for a holiday it suddenly turns into action and they must run to escape the people who are after them.  Bryan and his wife are taken and it is up to his daughter to save them. It is a race against time to save them and then Neeson does what he does best as the action hero and fights and kills the people who are after him for trying to attack him and his family.

The film is much like the first with fight scenes and chases but it seems to be dummbed down a bit with its 12A rating with many parts of the film being chopped and changed quickly at certain points. 

It is a decent follow up to the first Taken film with great fight scenes and Neeson back as the lead but i think it was real let down with the 12A rating as if it was more aimed at teenagers rather than adults. it is a better sequal than most other films though.

 

I would go see it again. 

Review on The Watch

THE WATCH

 

 

THE WATCH stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade. They star as four people who live in the same town and after someone is murdered they decide to start a neighbourhood watch group after the police don't take them seriously.

 

 

At first they are laughed at a lot until they find a machine which can destroy anything and they find this out when they destroy a cow.  They later realise it is alien technology and what killed there friend was really an alien which takes over peoples bodies. They find the alien and take it home where they party and take photos with it in funny scenes until it wakes up destroys the place and runs away. Towards the end of the film they realise that their is a major alien spaceship under the massive COSTCO and the four of them must try everything to save their town and the whole world from being destoyed.

 

 

I really enjoyed the film. It has some of the funniest actors around and the story is also very funny. It is full of action and comedy and i think everyone would like it. The only thing i don't like is the start as it seems to drag on but the ending and endless jokes make up for it.

 

Brilliant movie.