It took a lot
for me to sit through this movie. It’s not totally a drag, and it’s not boring
either. The best word for it is “WASTE.” It is a waste of time in the cinema
for me.
Waste of talent,
waste of reels, and a complete waste of money!
Liam Neeson
plays Bryan Mills (again) in this third—and I’m happy to say, final—movie in
the Taken series.
Did I hear a
hallelujah?
This movie isn’t
just flogging a dead horse. It’s more like committing genocide in a desolate
region. We get it, Bryan Mills is a badass. If you take something from him, he
will find you, get you, and kill you. We didn’t need to see him do it three
times.
The fact that
I’m watching him do the things I already know he can do keeps the fun the movie
is supposed to deliver at bay. The story shows that the writers have lost
focus. The movie is titled Taken, not “Bryan, The Homicide Detective.”
Here’s the plot:
Bryan’s ex-wife is planning to leave her new husband. She’s getting comfort
from Bryan when, suddenly, she’s killed, and her body is planted in Bryan’s
apartment to make it look like he did it.
Then the cops
show up, and he beats them up.
A badass
detective tries to catch him, and he says, “GOOD LUCK” (get it?).
Then he gets
help from his former CIA operative friends and gets his revenge.
In this movie,
nobody is taken who needs rescuing—just the life of someone Bryan loves gets
snuffed out, causing Bryan to go back into his box of “I’m a bad guy” and
unleash some whoop-ass on the culprits.
Plagued by bad
directing and a plot with more holes than a strainer, I had to endure it to the
end, watching a movie where I already knew how it was going to finish.
Why didn’t Luc
Besson just stop at making one of these movies?
Well, I guess the money the studio was offering was too good to pass up,
because this movie just showed us what we already know. Nothing different was
added or taken (no pun intended) from the movie’s foundational plot.
Don’t bother seeing the rest of the Taken franchise. Just watch part one and toss the rest. If you’ve already been unfortunate enough to see this, well, I guess you’ll have to agree with me: this was CRAP!!!
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