What age is Taken 2 appropriate for?

Rated PG-13 in the US. 13, alone or with a parent; 13 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Taken 2 not recommended under 13?

What's in it: the official rating, first; a mother hung up to bleed out; gunfights across the whole city; swearing, cigarettes. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Taken 2: what age is it for? 13, alone or with a parent

From 13, alone or with a parent.

Movie · 2012 · 1 h 38 · action, crime, thriller

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The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralonethe sweet spot

The official US rating is PG-13, and we never go below it. Alone from 13, and not before, even with an adult.

The sweet spot: around 13-15, when you will soon travel without your parents, and can watch a father turn his daughter into an ally. Why a sweet spot?

Official US rating: PG-13. In France, zinema would say 13.

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What it's about

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

Why 13

The official rating, firstRated PG-13 in the US (parents strongly cautioned, some material may be inappropriate for children under 13). zinema never goes below the country's rating: it explains it.
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A mother hung up to bleed outMills's wife is hung by the feet, her throat nicked, to die slowly before her tied-up husband's eyes; earlier, a bag over her head and a knife at her neck. Point-blank executions, a man left to die in a warehouse.
Gunfights across the whole cityA teenage girl throwing grenades from rooftops to guide her father, a car chase into an embassy, hand-to-hand fights and some thirty deaths. Almost a minute and a half of gunfire.
Swearing, cigarettesAbout ten swear words in French, cigarettes and raki, a suggested couple's scene at the start. No sexuality shown.

What the movie brings

A father who makes his daughter his ally instead of shielding her from everything, and teaches her to find her way in a city.
Revenge told from both sides: the Albanian father also wants to avenge his son.
Istanbul, its rooftops and bazaars, filmed like a playground.

Watching it together

Before

Say beforehand that the mother is tortured off screen and seen hanging; the rest is action, faster than it is bloody.

After

at 13 and up

The kidnappers' father wants to avenge his son, as Mills avenged his daughter: where does the right to revenge end?

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A zinema reading from September 20, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made