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#WHERE WAS TAKEN 3 FILMED SERIES#

(At some point, I wrote down вЂњa series of random conceptsвЂќ on my notepad and stopped trying to make any narrative sense out of these scenes.)

The idiocy and predictability of the plotting could be forgiven had вЂњTaken 3вЂќ delivered the superior action sequences that audiences would expect, but MГ©gaton and editors Audrey Simonaud and Nicolas Trembasiewicz take every fist-fight, shoot-out and highway chase and shred them into milliseconds of mismatched visual information like something out of a latter-day Godard movie. He handily escapes the LAPD вЂ“ who are, with the exception of Dotzler ( Forest Whitaker), presented as Keystone Kops вЂ“ and sets out to find the real killer while also protecting daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) from becoming the next victim.ДЄlso read: вЂTaken 3вЂІ Reviews: Critics DonвЂ™t Think Third TimeвЂ™s a Charm for Liam Neeson Thriller The next day, Lenore winds up in BryanвЂ™s bed with her throat cut, and the cops arrive just in time to assume that Bryan is the culprit. She drops by BryanвЂ™s place to cry on his shoulder and to make a pass (which Bryan gallantly deflects), only to have Stuart pop over later to ask Bryan to stay away from Lenore while they work on their marital issues.

This time around, MillsвЂ™ life seems relatively calm, while itвЂ™s his ex Lenore ( Famke Janssen) whoвЂ™s got problems, namely that her second marriage to Stuart (Dougray Scott) seems to be collapsing. Those cardboard cut-out villains are just one of the scriptвЂ™s many problems, which also include dialogue so unwieldy that Neeson wrestles with it like a wad of chewing gum that still has the wrapper attached, as well as a third-act twist so predictable and obvious that you keep waiting for the real twist to happen. Returning screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and director Olivier MГ©gaton didnвЂ™t even bother, instead pitting Mills against a gaggle of Russian mobsters so garishly stereotypical that they resemble the вЂњOpulence, I has itвЂќ guy from those old DirecTV commercials. See video: вЂTaken 3вЂІ Star Liam Neeson Framed for Murder in FilmвЂ™s First Trailer (Video) After seeing NeesonвЂ™s Bryan Mills lay waste to sex traffickers and the Albanian mafia in the two previous installments, the filmmakers apparently felt hard-pressed to find a bad guy who could present a viable challenge to the seasoned CIA veteran.

#WHERE WAS TAKEN 3 FILMED MOVIE#

ThereвЂ™s plenty of stupid on display in вЂњTaken 3,вЂќ but otherwise this dispiriting action movie вЂ“ somehow simultaneously fidgety and flaccid вЂ“ exists only to give Liam Neeson one more chance to play the role that made him вЂњLiam Neesons,вЂќ unlikely autumn-years action star.

If weвЂ™ve learned anything from the вЂњFast and FuriousвЂќ movies, itвЂ™s that itвЂ™s perfectly OK for sequels to get stupider so long as they also get more entertaining and more meticulously crafted.

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