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The new film misses what seems like an obvious opportunity to exploit some of the skills that her character must have picked up as the driver of an escape vehicle through the crowded streets of Istanbul in вЂњ Taken 2.вЂќ

For my money, that would be the second film, in which Bryan and his wife are kidnapped, leaving their daughter (Maggie Grace) to perform some derring-do. вЂњTaken 3вЂќ is certainly not the best of the series. Otherwise that scene might be, you know, disturbing. Thank goodness Neeson brings an enormous reservoir of likability to the role.

Such an economical action hero, if a bit of a litterbug.ДЄlso, Bryan engages in вЂњenhanced interrogationвЂќ techniques at one point, a la Jack Bauer.

Lather, rinse, repeat, until Bryan eventually reaches the heavily guarded compound of the supervillain, having expended hundreds of someone elseвЂ™s bullets (and the occasional ninjalike, disabling body blow) while sustaining only the odd flesh wound or two. What this means is that Bryan leaves home in the morning with a single loaded pistol, the contents of which he proceeds to empty into the first bad guy he hunts down, whose weapon he then picks up after discarding his own and moving on to the next victim. Rest assured that Bryan engages in plenty of what I like to call вЂњgun-frogging,вЂќ which вЂњTakenвЂќ fans have by now come to expect. So how does it end? Really, do you have to ask? вЂњDonвЂ™t be such a pessimist,вЂќ Bryan shoots back. вЂњThis is going to end bad for you,вЂќ warns a cop who is trying to arrest Bryan (and who, apparently, hasnвЂ™t seen the first two films). Whitaker adds a fresh dynamic to the somewhat rote proceedings, and there are a couple of good opportunities for Bryan to get off his trademark tough talk. ItвЂ™s about as pulse-pounding as your favorite roller coaster would be on the third go-round, even if the action and chase sequences seem a bit more sloppily constructed than usual. As in вЂњ The Fugitive,вЂќ Bryan goes on the lam to clear his name and find the person or persons responsible for the murder, all the while staying one step ahead of Forest Whitaker, who plays the dogged detective charged with bringing him in - and while leaving a trail of dead bodies in his choppy wake. Technically, no one has been вЂњtakenвЂќ - except for perhaps the audience, on what it is hoped will be a thrill ride. Here it is not an act of kidnapping that sets our hero off, as in the first two films, but the murder of his ex-wife (Famke Janssen), for which Bryan has been framed.

Taken 3 full movie series#

Written by series creators Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and directed by French action workhorse Olivier Megaton (вЂњ Taken 2вЂќ), the film dutifully cleaves to the contours of a well-established and viscerally satisfying formula, which dictates a brief introduction to the sleepily domestic life of retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (Neeson), followed by 75 minutes or so of frenetic action triggered by some attack on and/or abduction of a loved one. On the most basic level, this final installment meets the minimum requirements of the genre.

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One has certain expectations of a вЂњTakenвЂќ movie - really, of almost any Liam Neeson action film, but especially this popular franchise, which, as advertised on the posters for вЂњ Taken 3,вЂќ вЂњends here.вЂќ