Review of Taken 3 (2014) by Nerdconsultant — 10 Jan 2015

With terrible action sequences and poor story Taken 3 is a mess that is somehow worse than Taken 2 It’s decently acted and the story has some bright ideas when it’s not ripping off the fugitive, it just never fully executes them.

I think this film could have been a lot worse than it was, but with the product that we have now, it’s not one that I would really recommend, except to huge Taken fans. The tag line of Taken 3 is “it ends here”, well thank god it ends here because it is very clear from Taken 2 and Taken 3, that this film should never have been a franchise.

This whole thing kind of feels like a studio mandate, because the studio were insisting that this had to be a trilogy. I wouldn’t be surprised if I found that out. But as it stands Taken 3 is a pretty disappointing start to 2015 for me.

It may have more of an identity than it predecessor, but it’s worse than its predecessor purely on the fact its action sequences are a lot worse and it’s plot has a lot more contrivances that it is very difficult to get past.

I really wanted Taken 3 to bring the franchise back, but as it stands, it doesn’t work. This is a film I would recommend only renting when it comes out on DVD. If you must see it in cinemas, don’t bother with IMAX, it’s a waste of £4.

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