TAKEN 3

20th Century Fox

Rated: PG-13

Running time: 109 Minutes

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In Twentieth Century Fox's Taken 3, Liam Neeson is wrongly accused of a horrible crime and is on the run from LAPD inspector Forrest Whitaker and the Los Angeles Police Department.

In the third and final film in the Taken series, and Written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, Neeson, Famke Janssen, and Maggie Grace return as Neeson gets a text to meet with his ex-wife Janssen when he discovers something horrible. Immediately the Los Angeles Police Department arrive to arrest him for a crime he did not commit. Neeson escapes and looks for the person who framed him while trying to protect his pregnant daughter Grace from suffering the same fate.

While I have always like Liam Neeson, this movie felt like a poor man's John Wick, although Neeson did do all of his own fighting sequences for the film.

Being a Trojan, I liked the fact that they used aerial footage of USC, and several extras were listed as USC students during Grace's university scenes.

Forrest Whitaker was pretty much wasted in this movie. I really had wanted him to play more of an obsessed detective in getting Neeson in this movie as the movie trailers seem to portray. Having Neeson and Whitaker matching wits in their various obsessions, with the police caught in the middle would have been great to see. I really wanted to see more of the police coordinating with each other a lot more in order to get Neeson rather than what was shown in the movie.

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Rated PG-13 for violence and language. Running time: 109 Minutes.

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TAKEN 2

Twentieth Century Fox

Rated PG-13

Running time: 92 Minutes

 

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In Twentieth Century Fox's Taken 2, retired CIA operative Liam Neeson is on a business vacation trip in Istanbul with his wife Famke Jansson and daughter Maggie Grace - when Neeson and Jansson get kidnapped by the father of the man who had kidnapped Maggie earlier.

In this sequel to Taken, I felt the movie was uneven. This seems not surprising as the work of writers Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen are uneven. I did not see the original movie, but while the father Rade Serbedzija was good as the vengeful father targeting Neeson and getting revenge for the death of Serbedzija's son and the rest of the village gang involved with the kidnapping of Grace to use her for human prostitution in the first Taken movie - some of the plot points were totally unbelievable, mostly dealing with Neeson and Jansson. The scenes at home with Grace's driving test were nice and ordinary - but once Neeson and Jansson were kidnapped, it started to get a little like an ordinary action film and a little illogical. I did like the use of the Marines at the U.S. Embassy, however. I felt that they were more realistically used in the movie than in Argo. Seeing Grace being determined to go after her kidnapped parents from her hotel was great to see. Luc Besson claims that this is the last Taken movie.

Rated PG-13 for violence. Running time: 92 Minutes.

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