Just as he does, the cops arrive and suddenly Neeson is a fugitive (or more specifically The Fugitive given that Besson and his co-screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen just ripped off that plot wholesale rather than write their own). Neeson pays a visit to his wife and finds a corpse. Then just as everyone unlucky enough to be watching the movie is about to fall asleep, the plot finally kicks in. Instead this nonsense kicks off punishingly slowly and cheesily with sequences involving Liam buying his daughter (Maggie Grace) a giant stuffed panda and flirting with his ex-wife (Famke Janssen). The lazy filmmakers didn’t even bother to do that. You’d probably assume from the title that it involves Neeson hunting down someone who was taken, right? Well, nope. This isn’t just a bad threequel, it’s an insult to anyone who buys a ticket. Most of the names and faces are the same, but not a single quality that made the original effort memorable remains. Six years later, we’ve been given Taken 3. It may have been a B-movie, but it was one executed well enough to feel like an A. A 50-something Liam Neeson came out of nowhere to serve up a brutal action hero who would feel like a movie monster were it not for the fact that he had moral righteousness on his side and a particular set of villains unworthy of an inch of audience sympathy. The Luc Besson Eurotrash action factory produced a script laced with the nightmare reality of international sex trafficking and hard R action that stung in a way that few entries in the genre had in years. When Taken first hit screens in 2008, it was an unexpected shot in the heart for the action genre. It’s amazing how a couple of unnecessary sequels can suck absolutely everything good out of a franchise.

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