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Taken 2 (2012)

★ 6.4 · 7,079 ratings on TMDB

First they took his daughter. Now they're coming for him.

Taken 2 poster★ 6.4

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

DirectorOlivier Megaton
CastAlain Figlarz, D. B. Sweeney, Famke Janssen, Jon Gries, Kevork Malikyan, Leland Orser
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Taken 2 keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

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Shared director or cast.

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