Perhaps incredibly, Taken 3 takes a page out of Theįugitive's playbook by having Bryan (falsely) accused of murdering his wife Lenore (Famke Janssen). Note: While every summary of the film I've seen online (including my colleague Brian Orndorf's theatrical review) mentions a major (and unavoidable) plot point, lest anyone accuse this review ofĪ "spoiler," some may want to skip the following summary since it, too, mentions this same plot point. One that even Neeson seems to be tired of.
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That the first two films weren't), Taken 3 still has a number of exciting action elements, but it's a pretty drab and unconvincing effort, Overly contrived and just flat out silly (not Now with Taken 3 the law of diminishing returns isįully in effect, and rather ironically it's largely due to the fact that Besson and Kamen try in this third installment to provide more character beatsĪnd/or background in which Bryan, now a doubly hunted desperado, attempts to navigate. Kamen attempted to come up with enough actual story to support the set pieces. The gills with the same sort of intense action as the first film, there were already cracks to be seen as co-scenarists Luc Besson and Robert Mark Unavoidably led to its follow up Taken 2, and while stuffed to The perhaps unexpected success of Taken probably Those silly bad guys exactly what his "particular set of skills" could accomplish. Whatever narrative flaws Taken may have had, it was at the very least aīreathless and often viscerally exciting film, one filled with a number of unsettling but undeniably effective "gotcha" moments as Bryan taught Rescue his daughter from a human trafficking syndicate.
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Had a past (and even a name), but did it really matter? Taken was a film about a vigilante bringing a bunch of thugs to justice,Īnd it simply marauded through a series of interchanges where Bryan "took care of business" in his own inimitable way as he attempted to Liam Neeson's Bryan Mills may indeed have Little fuss, less bother, kidnapped daughter, a father with "special skills," and we're off and running. One of the more appealing things about Taken was its economy: Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, April 22, 2015