Director Oliver Megaton (great name, little talent) shoots every action scene through a blitzkrieg of jittery cameras, randomly assigned set ups, and pointlessly fast editing. The story doesn’t make much sense or offer enough tension and excitement to be worth the effort of following it. The evocatively seedy late night Europian locations of previous Takens have been replaced by dull suburban Los Angeles locales without atmosphere. ![]() There isn’t a single aspect of the move that isn’t half assed. The most frustrating part of watching Taken 3 is the complete and total laziness of the entire endeavor. More often than not, it’s just straight up boring. Worst of all, the movie isn’t even bad in a fun way. Everything about the story is stupid or confusing or both. ![]() Why? You wouldn’t even believe me if I told you. Whitaker figures that out through bagels. The detective assigned to the case is Forest Whitaker, which obviously means that he’s far too nice and understanding to believe that Neeson is a villain. Just as he does, the cops arrive and suddenly Neeson is a fugitive (or more specifically The Fugitive given that Besson and his co-screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen just ripped off that plot wholesale rather than write their own). Neeson pays a visit to his wife and finds a corpse. Then just as everyone unlucky enough to be watching the movie is about to fall asleep, the plot finally kicks in. Instead this nonsense kicks off punishingly slowly and cheesily with sequences involving Liam buying his daughter (Maggie Grace) a giant stuffed panda and flirting with his ex-wife (Famke Janssen). The lazy filmmakers didn’t even bother to do that. You’d probably assume from the title that it involves Neeson hunting down someone who was taken, right? Well, nope. This isn’t just a bad threequel, it’s an insult to anyone who buys a ticket. Most of the names and faces are the same, but not a single quality that made the original effort memorable remains. Six years later, we’ve been given Taken 3. It may have been a B-movie, but it was one executed well enough to feel like an A. A 50-something Liam Neeson came out of nowhere to serve up a brutal action hero who would feel like a movie monster were it not for the fact that he had moral righteousness on his side and a particular set of villains unworthy of an inch of audience sympathy. ![]() The Luc Besson Eurotrash action factory produced a script laced with the nightmare reality of international sex trafficking and hard R action that stung in a way that few entries in the genre had in years. When Taken first hit screens in 2008, it was an unexpected shot in the heart for the action genre. Taken 3 scores a 6.0 digit binge rating out of 10 and movie is available in Action and Suspense and Thriller genres.It’s amazing how a couple of unnecessary sequels can suck absolutely everything good out of a franchise. Stokes and Cédric Chevalme are playing as the star cast in this movie. Smith, Jimmy Gonzales, David Clark, Michael Shikany, Robert Bryan Davis, Nazareth Dairian, Tony Demil, Stefanie Kleine, Johnny Harvill, Angie Dillard, Wallace Langham, Franck Neel, Anton Yakovlev, Ellen Ho, Haley Craft, Stephanie Honoré, Steve Coulter, Mike Davies, Jonathan Waite, Lauren Sivan, Cornelius Peter, Kevin Fry, Katie Mary Garland, Al Sapienza, Chad Donella, Pete Thias, Cedric Camus, Karim Ben Haddou, Vincent Parisi, Scott Thrun, Laurent Desponds, Amanda Nima, Alex Disdier, Martin Vaughan Lewis, Abbey Ferrell, Ashante P.T. Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Dougray Scott, Sam Spruell, Don Harvey, Dylan Bruno, Leland Orser, David Warshofsky, Jon Gries, Jonny Weston, Andrew Borba, Judi Beecher, Andrew Howard, Cedric Cirotteau, Catherine Dyer, Jimmy Palumbo, Robert Pralgo, Tony Williams, Al Vicente, Alexander Wraith, Shelley Calene-Black, Adam J. This movie is 1 hr 49 min in duration and is available in English language. Taken 3 was released on and was directed by Olivier Megaton.
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