Taken 2 (movie)

now playing "Argo" (R). In 1979, after Iranian revolutionaries storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, a CIA "exfiltration" specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans trapped. With Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and Alan Arkin. TownMall Cinemas (1:00,...

TAKEN 2 (2012, B-/Directed by Olivier Megaton/Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Sherbedgia, Luke Grimes/Fox/Rated PG-13/Action/91 minutes)   While American filmmakers undervalue the screen and life experience brought by aging...

Moviegoers were held captive by "Taken 2" at the box office this weekend, as the Liam Neeson sequel had a superb No. 1 debut. The kidnapping action-thriller opened to a strong $50 million, according to an estimate from distributor Twentieth Century Fox....

It's actually perfectly understandable that Gov. Rick Scott doesn't fully appreciate the problem with texting while driving in Florida. I mean, I doubt the man drives himself to Publix to get Oreos and chips. I don't think he drives himself and his...

Not that we needed it, and pardon the trace elements of contempt regarding the familiarity of this particular narrative hook, but: Yet another serial killer movie hits theaters this week. In "Alex Cross," Tyler Perry, way, way out of his signature drag...

Tim Burton's wonderfully strange imagination is on fire in "Frankenweenie." A lonely boy loves his dog, loses his dog, and re-animates his dog. It's a charming reworking of the old Frankenstein movies, but here the only monsters are loutish neighbors and...

now playing "Alex Cross" (PG-13). A serial killer pushes a detective/psychologist for the Detroit Police Department (Tyler Perry) to the edge. With Edward Burns, Matthew Fox, Jean Reno, Carmen Ejogo, Cicely Tyson, Rachel Nichols and Werner Daehn....

Argo * * * Ben Affleck carga fama de ser un actor que trabaja en películas malas, pero lo cierto es que el artista posee gran talento como actor y como director. La prueba contundente es Argo, drama político dirigido y protagonizado por Affleck que...

There will be a tense standoff between two hostage movies at the box office this weekend, as “Taken 2” and “Argo" battle for No. 1. After a spectacular $49.5-million debut last weekend, the Liam Neeson sequel "Taken 2" will likely...

I want to start by saying that I wasn't a fan of 2009's "Taken." I found it routine and unengaging. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind that I am not the audience for this past weekend's "Taken 2." Having said that, even if you were a fan of the...

"Taken 2" is so much lousier than need be, and its action sequences look as if they were put together by someone who doesn't know what he's doing. That's a problem. And not even the charismatically weather-beaten face and basso profundo action-star...

now playing "Finding Nemo" (G). Re-release of the animated Disney film in which a fish searches the ocean blue to find his missing son. With Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Alexander Gould. TownMall Cinemas (11:50* a.m.) "Frankenweenie" (PG). In this...