"Taken 2" is really, really goofy -- it's even goofier because it thinks it's about the futility of vengeance -- but Liam Neeson almost makes you buy it.

A meta-American movie, a Godardian spoof of the whole genre, an attempt to see how stupid and insulting a motion picture can be and still be a big hit.

So lazily put together that it relies on flashbacks from its predecessor for the majority of its character development.

Besson and Megaton have delivered a sequel that fails in every way to live up to its predecessor.