'Taken 2' International Trailer Now Online

By: Greg Payne

You'd figure all the bad guys would know by now: You don't mess with Liam Neeson. I guess they watched Love, Actually, saw him cooking chicken kabobs for Sam, and figured he went soft. But clearly they forgot about Star Wars, Batman Begins, and, most importantly, Taken. I say most importantly, because it's the same bad guy ring from Taken, albeit with some new faces, that will be pursuing Mr. Neeson and his very particular set of skills in Taken 2 (we couldn't call it Taken Again?). Yup, Neeson will reprise his role as aging badass Bryan Mills in the sequel to the breakout 2008 hit. Check out the international trailer below:



Are we supposed to feel bad for the bad guys who lost relatives who were heavily involved in the trafficking of teenage girls? Because I don't. And don't play the whole, "They might not have know what those guys were doing," card. Those are some shady looking non-American dudes standing over those graves. They knew exactly what was happening. Sorry your son was killed for having a hand in abducting someone's daughter. And I'm even more sorry it happened to be the daughter of Bryan Mills, more force of nature than human being.

But you're right, shady-looking wrongdoers, taking his daughter worked out so well for you guys the first time, why not go for broke and take the man's wife this time around? Surely he won't give a shit and kill any of you. He'll wish you all a job well done and go back to making chicken kabobs for Sam (if you haven't seen Love, Actually, do so soon).

What sucks even more for the bad guys this time around is that Mills is fully embracing how much of a badass he is. In the first Taken he was kind of a quiet, reserved, humble, killing machine. Like even when he had to kill people, he wasn't boastful about it. He was still pretty modest even as he was breaking arms, forcing people to get run over by big trucks, and, of course, shooting people.

But in Taken 2 his confidence no longer seems to be internalized. Kim asks: "What are you going to do?" 


His response: "What I do best." 


BOOM. 


I can't wait to see all the bad guys get axed yet again in Taken 2, which should further remind us that you never mess with Liam Neeson or his family. At this point, I wouldn't even look at his mailman the wrong way.