Taken 2 how does it end

Click here to see the rest of this review Best part of story, including ending: What I liked about this story was the skill displayed by Bryan. Best scene in story: My favorite scene was when he saves his wife in the end because it made him a hero.

Opinion about the main character: What I like about Brian was all the gadgets he used with his skills. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Getting back to the movie that started it all, Taken had everything audiences wanted out of an action thriller.

Bryan Mills Neeson loses his daughter, Kim Maggie Grace to an abduction, so he absconds to Europe to track her down, killing henchman upon henchman in the process. It all has a happy ending, with Bryan's family reunited.

His ex-wife, Lenore Famke Janssen may still be with someone else, but at least they're on more amicable terms now saving your daughter will do that kind of thing. Everything seemed to be wrapped up nicely, but with any successful movie, a sequel always has to be in the cards. Taken 2 put the Mills family back in harm's way — except this time, Bryan and Lenore are the ones taken. It's up to Kim to save the day, for this adventure, and it all culminates in a thrilling conclusion. Kim proves herself to be a worthwhile mercenary while she's receiving guidance from her father throughout most of the film.

Her would-be abductors shoot another hotel guest and two security guards after entering the wrong room, but fail to find her as she hides in the closet as instructed and are forced to flee when the alarm is sounded. Kim then makes her way to the hotel's locker room and borrows her father's clothes as instructed.

Bryan wakes with his hands tied to a pole in a basement of an old house. Using a phone that he had hidden in his sock, Bryan calls Kim, instructing her to go to the American embassy and tell them what happened, but she begs for a chance to help him and Lenore.

Under Bryan's guidance, she opens his suitcase, containing weapons and a map. Using a shoelace and a pencil, she creates a 2. After that, she takes a grenade, pulls a pin, counts to 3 and throws it on a parking lot, destroying a car.

Bryan hears the explosion over the phone and counts, and stops at 4 when he hears the sound wave of the blast. Using the knowledge of that, Kim draws a 4. Using the wind, Bryan calculates he is on the eastern point of intersection.

Bryan orders Kim to take the pistol and 2 more grenades, and to head to the eastern location. While he is tied up, the Albanian mobsters bring in a hooded and struggling Lenore. One takes a knife and makes a small cut to her throat before hooding her and hanging her upside down by chains. They tell Bryan he has to watch her bleed out and die before he dies. They also tell him that Kim will be captured and sold to "the worst brothel that exists", with a scared Lenore begging them not to with her muffled sounds.

When the mobsters leave, Bryan tries to escape and calms down an increasingly panicky Lennie who breathes harder and harder before becoming unconscious. She is then rescued by him, but due to circumstances, is forced to leave her before coming back for her and call Kim to detonate two more grenades so he can determine his location.

The grenade detonations enable Bryan to guide Kim close enough to see steam he sends up a chimney to mark his precise location.

Kim tosses the gun down the chimney. Bryan uses it to kill the Albanians in the building, then saves Kim from her rooftop pursuer. There is no sense of fun. The dialogue is really quite terrible, with another clunking line or exchange every couple of minutes. This is a great shame, because the success of the first one rested squarely on the shoulders of Neeson, who was great as the taciturn and over protective father…who was a world class head-kicker-iner.

Grace is clearly a full decade too old to be playing this character, who is still a teenager. I could not bring myself to care about any of the characters, or their plight, no matter how bad things might get for them. Megaton has a very appropriate name for action movies, but his talent is seriously lacking. Whereas the first Taken movie was fun and thrilling, this one is cynical, not particularly fun at all, and is utterly devoid of tension.

I had expected somewhat poor writing, and direction, but not this bad. Thing is, I was also expecting the action to be the saving grace for the film, not a nail in the coffin.

When the action does eventually come, it is terrible. The first car chase is terrible and the fight that follows is just as bad. Both feel like they were edited totally at random, ripping random frames out and inserting disjointed alternative angles. The editing really makes the action scenes confusing and boring.