Taken was a blast. Especially the first half before it just became ‘Liam kills Earth’. Such a good flick that could have been a classic if it didn’t become car chases and indestructible Liam rampaging through cadre after cadre of faceless overrated foreign folks. But he shoots that dude’s wife to prove a point and for that it has my eternal love. The movie made enough money to invade Milla Jovovich so a sequel was and is inevitable. And now it’s for real.
Variety is not the spice of life, but it is an expensive and self important trade publication and they have shared with us news that Luc Besson and 20th Century Fox have partnered to bring the film to most of the world, with a few distributors sending it to audiences in certain countries who don’t read CHUD much. Also new information is that the amazingly named Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3) would be directing. Which is fine. All we need is Liam and slimy men for him to punch in the face.
I have an inside track to the plot. It involves someone being taken and Liam taking them back.
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As long as it’s someone whose being Taken really really pisses Liam off, we’ll be fine.
Did he have a dog? Or an elephant?
“Taken 2: The Wife Shooter” is a movie I would shoot someone’s wife to see.
I really hope that in addition to more heartless world criminals getting beaten or shot to death or near-death by Darkman, Xander Berkeley returns so that Neeson can yell at him “STEWART, THIS IS *STILL* NOT THE TIME FOR DICK MEASURING!” I quote that line all the time.
Best part in the first one is when Neeson breaks free from captivity in the boiler room after 32 seconds of being subdued, kills everyone, and corners that squirrely American who’s running the operation, and he pleads with him how he has kids and it’s only a business, but it only earns him a magazine full of bullets from Oskar freaking Schindler.
Personally, they should call it Taken It 2 the Streets and have him eradicate gang activity in Los Angeles.
P.S.: Fuck it if 24 did the whole “hero shoots the wife to get what you want” thing before. That part of the film was one of my favorites.
Taken It 2 The Streets sounds ludicrously fun, although I’d be happy with a new continent of goons for Liam to tango with.
He should take on an army of tween street dancers. Scored by the Doobie Brothers.
That movie would end up being a three-minute short on the Blu-ray.
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