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Retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) invites ex-wife Lenore "Lennie" (Famke Janssen) and their teenage daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) to spend a few days in Istanbul with him. Things go bad when Bryan and Lennie are abducted by Murad Krasniqi (Rade Serbedzija), the leader of the ring of Albanian sex traffickers who kidnapped Kim and her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy) a few years earlier. This time, however, it is Kim who must find and rescue her father so that he can do the same for Lennie.

Taken 2 is the sequel to L'Enlèvement (2008), which was based an original script by French filmmaker Luc Besson and American screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen who also wrote the screenplay for Taken 2. It is followed by L'Enlèvement 3 (2014).

The unrated version is more than 6 minutes longer. But contrary to the first one, there are more differences that cut scenes to get the PG-13. It rather seems like the movie editors wanted to save running time. As a result, there are more plot elements in the unrated version and especially one thing: more walking. That means not everything is really noticeable and that footage is simply superfluous, that's for sure. Nevertheless, the violence is rougher now (there are the common differences like cuts, more harmless alternate footage, reducing the blood color, reducing or removing the sound of cracking bones) but it still doesn't reach the level of the first Taken.