I had a good laugh when one of the cable stations ran it on Father's Day. He was kind of the ultimate superdad, rescuing his daughter.
Taken 2 was just a contrived retread of the first movie.
Neeson was also in a phycho-drama Chloe, that I found interesting with a lot of unexpected twists. Good as much for Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried as Neeson.
His 2011 film Unknown had him playing a similar character, and was also interesting, but fell apart for me at the end.