There is never a single doubt, whether he's in handcuffs or rolling down the side of a mountain - from which he walks away unscathed, by the way! - that Bryan will succeed in his angered pursuit of vengeance.Įven the time we watched a top-secret covert operative on a furious personal quest to rescue his kidnapped daughter in ' Commando,' the muscle-bound, near Greek-god-like scope of Arnold Schwarzenegger's John Matrix revealed a vulnerable side, a small chance of failing in his action-packed hunt. Although it could be argued his family is Bryan's one weak spot, the hero is practically invincible and always out of harm's way.
Basically, he's smarter and better than anyone in the entire film, including the one possibly intelligent character, Detective Frank Dotzler (a good Forest Whitaker snapping away at a rubber band around his fingers). There's never a moment we fear Bryan in ever in jeopardy or that he will overcome those who stand in his way. He squints and makes pouty faces, showing a strained effort to force it out, but walks away from the scene as though he didn't deal it or it wasn't that big a deal. Reprising the role that solidified him as the modern-day action hero by wreaking havoc upon those who endanger his family, Neeson looks slow and fatigued, as though his age is finally starting to catch up to him, yet he dishes out cans of whoop-ass like he's nonchalantly passing gas. Anyhow, it's all too evident that the plot is really a rehash of 1993's ' The Fugitive,' except that his poor man's Richard Kimble is a skilled government agent who eludes police without ever breaking a sweat, meaning he's never in any serious danger.Īnd this is where the first problem arises. In a strange cosmic irony that nears comical, the ex-wife and daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), are once again abducted briefly for no other reason than to further piss off our somewhat likeable hero. Essentially, what is forcefully taken away from Bryan this time around is his innocence and the prospect of reuniting his family as hinted at in the beginning. The laziness in this third installment is apparent early on when our former covert operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson, looking pretty tired and sleepwalking his way through the entire production) is framed for murdering his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen, who frankly doesn't seem all that interested or invested) and sets out to clear his name. To borrow from a surprisingly thoughtful YouTube video, 'Taken 3' is a prime example of what's wrong with the current slate of action films, especially those camouflaging a lack of originality and lazy writing with loud explosions and a hyperactive frenzy of incomprehensible stunts. It's not much of a surprise either, but it makes all the mayhem and destruction of the last 100 minutes all the worse. The only crime worth solving in this spiritless, lackluster actioner is determining the motive, and even then, the realization is such a massive disappointment that we feel foolish for not seeing it earlier.
Literally, the script, again from the minds of Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, puts little to no effort into throwing our suspicions to any other culprit or possibility.
TAKEN 3 BLUERAY MOVIE
After suffering not one but two international kidnappings where dear ole dad is tasked with using his particular skill set for the rescue, moviegoers are taken for a third and supposedly final thrill-ride in 'Taken 3.' Recycling familiar plot concepts attempting to play out like a "who-done-it" thriller, the movie goes through the usual motions only to arrive at the obvious conclusion, which anyone can easily figure out in the first ten minutes. By this time, it should be fairly clear to action audiences everywhere that the Mills family is the world's most ill-fated and luckless clan on Earth.
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