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("What are you planning to do?" he's asked, before a rampage. The plot is embarrassingly simple: save Dad, save Mom, let Dad kill Albanians. Part of the "character arc" of the movie is Bryan educating his darling daughter on the fly in the art of being an engine-of-destruction, including using grenade explosions as a locator device and driving through blockades. I'm not quite sure how they were planning to make it back over the border, since the scale of destruction would be international news.Īs for the American Embassy, the ambassador probably had some explaining to do after Bryan and Kim were through with it. On a mission to capture Bryan and take him back home, they cause more collateral damage and kill more bystanders than an all-out terrorist attack.
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I will add, however, that these are the dumbest Albanian criminals this side of the Adriatic. Meanwhile, the Albanian crime patriarch Murad (Rade Sherbedgia), has extracted Bryan's location via torture of another operative, and is en route to Istanbul with a couple of carfuls of heavily armed Albanian goons and allowed over the border by an apparently paid-off Turkish guard (since Albania and Turkey don't share a border, I'm guessing they paid off some Greeks too).
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So hey, why not make a family vacation of it? Bryan's ex-wife is having problems in her subsequent marriage, and Bryan has a mysterious assignment in Turkey involving mysterious Arabs and a wad of cash in an envelope. Written by Luc Besson and directed by the aptly named Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3), this utterly improbable orgy of gun battles, car chases and property damage takes place in Istanbul - which the director takes pains to portray as a scary Muslim place (he seems obsessed with closeups of the famed Blue Mosque and women in burkas, a garment one sees relatively little of there in real life). But Dad, Mom (Famke Janssen) AND Daughter are all in play as prey in this tale of revenge-obsessed Albanians, all relatives of the human traders dispatched by CIA killing-machine/devoted-dad Bryan Mills (Neeson) in the original. You'll be safe there.")Īdmittedly, it was the daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace) who was "taken" by human slave traders in the watchable original. (Here's an even bigger laugh-getter, albeit morbidly so given recent events: "Get yourself to the U.S. "Your mother and I have been taken."Īt the Taken 2 screening I attended, this thuddingly clumsy attempt to inject the title of Neeson's most successful action-star turn into the dialogue, elicited one of the bigger laughs of what turned out to be a hilariously bad, ostensibly serious movie. The new COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529, first detected in South Africa this week, was on Friday designated as a “Variant of Concern” by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which named it Omicron."Listen to me closely," Liam Neeson commands via cellphone. Similar restrictions might come into force for the passengers coming from other countries affected by the new variant of the virus, she said. Pednekar, who is currently in Delhi, said that this step is taken as a precautionary measure considering the past experience of difficulty in controlling a COVID-19 wave once it starts. "There is an increased risk of coronavirus in foreign countries, so those coming from outside will have to undergo genome tests," she said, adding that the Mumbai civic body is scheduled holding a meeting on this later on the day. Talking to PTI, Pednekar said the decision was taken in view of a huge new wave of COVID-19 in South Africa due to a new variant Omicron, which is highly contagious as compared to the past variants of the coronavirus. The samples of these passengers will also be sent for genome sequencing, she said. In view of a new contagious variant of COVID-19 being found in South Africa, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Saturday said that all the passengers coming to the city from that country will be quarantined.