![]() Neeson is asked here to basically be an action hero, and not a great actor as he was in the original. This does miss some of the drama of the first one especially. There is an attempt to freshen this a bit, but over all it is just an action movie, nothing special. I think everyone needs just to take a deep breath and remember they can't all change cinematic history. But it's mid-January, and we need a little silly and mindless action to get us through it. This is an easy target for critics to hammer away on for tons of reasons, most of them apt. The formula got The Fugitive tons of Oscar nominations and a win for Tommy Lee Jones who played the colorful cop. You like both characters and are a bit conflicted on who to cheer for, actually wishing them both the best. A sympathetic, innocent hero on the run from a dogged, smart and really great character developed here by Whitaker. This movie, (although not in the same class at all) takes on The Fugitive's formula. Whitaker makes any movie better, even a marginal one. It just looks a bit more obvious here.īut a great choice was the casting of Forest Whitaker as the lead investigator chasing Brian. There was plenty in the first two, but now we may be getting weary of it. There are plenty of huge action and chase scenes, and much of this is hard to swallow, as a ton of silliness is blended in. All the while, he is being chased by the Los Angeles cops for the murder. ![]() So he is on the run, trying to find the killer, and trying to protect his daughter (Maggie Grace) from the same fate. Brian's ex-wife (Famke Janssen) is murdered, and the whole thing is set up to make it look like Brian did it. But this time there are some new wrinkles. Taken 3, is a bit of a stretch, but it again is a dad protecting his daughter. And the end result was the same, strike another one for the good guys. Taken 2, was not as good, as we had to relive his wife AND daughter being taken again. Behind all of its bells and whistles, it was a father moving Heaven and Earth to save his daughter from kidnappers. The original Taken was a really fun, tidy thrill ride that we all loved. All in all, a suitable swansong for the franchise.Taken 3, continues the story of ex-special ops and OCD hero Brian Mills (Liam Neeson) and his family. But Grace’s Kim is really the most riveting. Spruell’s don Malankov, suitably debauched and with a Spetsnaz background, is as nasty and cold-hearted as they come. Dotzler and team try to predict what Mills will do next. What works greatly to the movie’s credit is the pacing (never a dull moment here!) and that sense of ‘What’s going to happen next?’ Mills and his group of friends rely heavily on technology to stay ahead of the cops as well as to nab the bad guys. Investigating inspector Dotzler’s (Whitaker) instincts tell him that all is not what it seems in this case. ![]() Thereafter, Mills must evade the cops, seek revenge and protect Kim. Everything changes when he comes home to her corpse the next day, after receiving a message from Lenore asking to meet. Meanwhile, Mills visits his daughter ahead of her birthday and Lenore drops in at his place later on as he is making dinner. The film opens with some Russian mobsters who capture and kill the accountant of a company, the boss of which owes money to the mafia. Screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen smoothly set up a situation that places Mills squarely in the police crosshairs as the Lenore’s murderer.
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