Taken 3 Review (2015)

My first movie review for 2015 is taken 3 and boy did I pick a bad one to start off with. I'd you read my taken 2 review you know that I was a big fan of the first taken film but not so much of the second film. But I actually think this one is the worst of the trilogy.

The premise of the film sees a person who is close to Bryan mills murdered and he is accused of it. With the cops after him Bryan attempts to clear his name, find the person responsible and protect the one good thing left in his life, his daughter.

Now I love Liam neeson in this role as Bryan mills and I truly believe he is the only reason that the second and first film have any credibility in the first place. He is the same character he was in the first and second one but he does the performance well and you gotta give him credit for that.

The supporting cast is not so good. Forest Whitaker plays the cop that is after him and we know he is a good actor but boy he is as cliche as you get. He is just your average cop going after a suspect and he has a chess piece and a rubber band which act as his ticks and I just sighed when I saw him in this film. Famke Janssen really only has one scene in the whole film so I don't think it is really even worth her being mentioned. Now for 3 films now we are meant to care about Maggie graces character and I am sorry but I don't, her character was saddled with a stupid side plot and I actually believe she could have easily been written out of the film. For the record I am not a fan of mission impossible 2 so when I saw dougray Scott was taking over the role of Stuart I knew he was just going to be the same character as his other films and he absolutely is.

Now I will give them credit that they went away from the kidnapping aspect of the story because 3 films in that would have felt even more forced and lazy. But the execution of this new story feels just as lazy because they practically stole the plot of the fugitive. I predicted every big plot line in this film before it happened and I was right, when a film does that it just makes me wonder why I even bothered watching this film.

The script is actually okay with neeson once again selling how awesome he is with all of his dialogue. But everybody else's dialogue is just dull and cliche and none of it is interesting at all.

Now really the best part of the first taken film was the awesome action but not in this film. I do not know what it is with this director but he wants to be the new Paul greengrass and make shaky cam work but he won't because he is just not good enough. You will not see any of the action at all, also there are scenarios in the film that just leave you scratching your head as to how Bryan survived and they never explain it, it was just a way to hollywoodize the action in this film.

Overall this film is bad and is definitely not worth your time to see it so please don't.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JuU0M2xBasc
This is the trailer for taken 3

Final rating 3/10