Taken 3 : Movie Review


 Tak3n (2015)  - Movie Poster"Taken 3" would aptly be subtitled "Liam Neeson Kicks Ass" if it wasn't such a foregone conclusion. This third and hopefully final series entry is more of the same in that Liam Neeson (2014's "Non-Stop") is, once again, beating up and outsmarting everyone who wants to take him down. The stakes are just as high this time—his family is in danger, and he has been framed for the murder of someone dear to him—while the screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen gives 2012's "Taken 2" some hefty competition for sheer absurdity. It's mildly competent and mostly diverting, but the formula is getting stale, and it feels like everyone involved knows it.

A few years have passed since ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen), and daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) narrowly escaped kidnapping and torture in Istanbul, and even more since Bryan saved Kim from shady Paris sex traffickers. These unlucky souls have been through it all—except, that is, for actual death and being wrongfully set up for a homicide they didn't commit. Enter "Taken 3," wherein Bryan and an unhappily married Lenore have no sooner begun to rekindle their relationship when tragedy strikes close to home. With LAPD Sergeant Franck Dotzler (Forest Whitaker) and his ragtag officers closing in, wanted-man Bryan narrowly escapes and sets out to find the people behind this unthinkable crime. Also pulled into the high-stakes goings-on: college student Kim, still grappling with the discovery that she is pregnant, and Lenore's husband, Stuart (Dougray Scott), not exactly the most trustworthy of fellows.


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Author : Dustin Putman, TheFilmFile.com.