By Cary Darling
Taken, the successful 2008 thriller in which a retired agent gets his kidnapped teenage daughter back, was an explosion of middle-aged machismo. Seeing Liam Neeson dish out skull-cracking, back-snapping payback to every young thug in Paris proved to be a rollicking good time.Now there’s Taken 2, which has the requisite abductions, speeding cars and Americans in danger on foreign soil, but the only ones truly taken for a ride are those in the audience.
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