Taken 2

When Bryan and Kim are on the ferry, Bryan's arm switches from being around Kim's shoulder to being by his side in between shots.

When Bryan and Kim are in the yellow taxi they stole and been chased by the black Mercedes being driven by the Albanians, the rear window of the taxi gets blown away out by gunfire.

In all the following scenes the taxi still has a rear window.

The U.

Embassy to Turkey is in Ankara, the capital.

There is a U.

Consulate in Istanbul.

Security at the U.

Consulate in Istanbul is provided by local guards, not the U.

There are always jersey barriers or other reinforced structures to prevent someone from just crashing into the compound as was shown in the movie.

Despite the taxi running into cars, walls, etc, it remains in virtual perfect condition throughout the entire chase scene.

When Kim sets off the first grenade, Bryan counts nearly 4 seconds and calculates that it was 4.

5km away.

The speed of sound is approx 0.

340km/s so the explosion was just over 1km away.

The sound would have taken roughly 13 seconds to travel 4.

Kim is shown Skyping her boyfriend at the pool using an iPad.

When she the call from her dad, she runs from the pool, taking only her cell phone and leaving the iPad behind.

Later when the villains come to the pool with the intention to abduct Kim, they search all around the pool and the iPad is nowhere to be found.

When Kim is being chased on the rooftops of Istanbul, the distance between her and the man chasing her changes drastically between shots, switching from about 10 feet to 30 feet and then coming back to less than 10 feet.

There is no common border between Albania and Turkey.

The Albanians would have to go through Greece, or Serbia, or Macedonia.

There are mountain passes, but certainly the border crossing points cannot be that primitive.

When Kim is waiting in the stolen taxi for Bryan to go inside and retrieve Lenore, each shot of the timer on the iPhone shows that it has "No Service".

However Kim was talking on this phone with Bryan while outside of the very same building earlier.

The police cars in the movie are very old Tofas brand cars.

These cars have not been used as police cars since over a decade, however they do have the updated police writing and logo.

- PLOTAt the beginning of the film, Bryan tells Kim that he wants to do the driving lesson before he leaves for his trip and before her fall break.

Then, when he shows up a few days later, Lenore is upset because their plans for Kim's spring break have been ruined.

In the scene when Lenore and Bryan sits down to have a glass of wine Lenore brings two empty glasses and a bottle of wine to the table but she never pours any wine from the bottle, yet when they bring the glasses to their mouths they suddenly contain wine.

When Kim is making circles on the map, she compares the shoelace to the map's scale as a reference, but doesn't hold the lace flat against the map when drawing the circles; instead, the lace acts as the hypotenuse of a right triangle, with the pen and map as the other two sides.

Any circles drawn in this manner would be smaller than intended.

While Bryan Mills and Kim are being chased by Albanians, Mr.

Mills gives Kim directions to the U.

Embassy using a navigator.

But the device screen reads "GPS Kapali" which is "GPS Deactivated" for Turkish.

Besides, the device screen shows them driving on a coast highway; however, the chase takes place in narrow streets of suburbs then.

The women in the film are all wearing the black hi-jab which covers all the body even the face, which is rarely seen in Turkey.

There are no ladies appeared in the film with modern clothes or without hi-jabs.

After crashing into the US Embassy, Bryan calls his former colleague in Los Angeles, who is playing golf.

With an 11 hour time difference between Turkey and the west coast of the USA, it would be highly unlikely that both characters could be in daylight at the same time.

Just after Kim threw her second grenade on the roof, she continues to talk to Bryan but her iPhone is now upside down.

Kim is shown several times answering her iPhone and it makes a clicking sound.

iPhones do not make the clicking sound when answering calls, only when unlocking the screen normally.

Kim runs put out of the room in shorts and no shoes, steals a jacket from a locker and then has shoes and long pants.

When Bryan asks Kim to draw circle on Map.

For the first circle, he tells Kim to "make DIAMETER of 3 Kilometers".

Then later, for the second circle he tells Kim to draw a circle with "CIRCUMFERENCE at 4.

5 Kilometers".

Kim draws circles considering both the distances (Diameter and Circumference) as Radius.

The yellow Mercedes Benz taxi that is stolen by the Mills' changes from the original launch shape of that particular W124 Mercedes Benz to the facelift W124 model and vice versa.

After Bryan notices he is being tailed with Lenore and takes the BMW, he winds up driving through a food stand.

Throughout the scene, the car constantly changes between being dirty and covered in food and perfectly clean.

As others (many others) have noted, "Taken 2" doesn't even come close to being as good as "Taken." And, as others (many others) have noted, the movie is weakened badly by the unbelievability of much of what happens.

I just watched "Taken 2" and it was ridiculous how they portrayed Istanbul to the audience. I really don't understand,what kind of obsession does Hollywood have about pretending Istanbul as trash or showing Turkey as a primeval country?

Four years after the sleeper hit that was "Taken", Liam Neeson - now 60 - is back as ex CIA operative Bryan Mills with his special set of skills. This time the storyline is inverted: he is not seeking the Albanians, they are after him he is not rescuing his 'taken' daughter Kim (now a 30 year old Maggie Grace) but she is looking for her 'taken' father and mother.

In 2008 Taken was a surprise hit and made Liam Neeson a surprising action hero with him ending up getting him many action gigs. Taken was a cheap to make, so a sequel made business sense, leading to Taken 2, a definition of a money grabbing sequel.

A well shot film making full use of its surroundings, Istanbul in this case. Well paced with the level action keeping the adrenalin pumping almost from the start.

The first Taken was a belated surprise hit in the USA. It was already out on DVD in the UK for some time before it was released in the cinemas in the United States.

Taken 2 is a satisfying sequel to the original Taken film, though this time around feels more Bourne Identity driven in global turmoil and adrenaline action sequences than the international espionage aspect and human trafficking of the first film. This is a theme that I did miss in this return to the franchise but the film clearly makes up for it in the form of high speed chases and heart racing suspense.

If you have seen the first part you will not like this. and if you haven't watched the first part yet, watch it instead of watching this.

Great loss of time! But very good example for huge illiterateness.