Taken 3

Was there really a need to make a part three to Taken? Was it simply to show that Olivier Megaton is quickly becoming the worst director in the world? And why hasn't he changed his name to Megatron by now; that would instantly make him far fresher than he can ever imagine, more so than getting fat from eating baguettes and drinking Syrah ever will!

My idiot friend was legitimately upset when I told him that I wanted to see Selma before I saw Taken 3 in the theater, so much so that I could literally feel his disappointment as he read my text because it took him a full 5 minutes to respond. He eventually agreed and wound up enjoying it but I could see him subconsciously walking towards the Taken 3 theater as we walked in the megaplex.

There's something about old and out of shape men running around on screen that makes him giggle like a schoolgirl and sadly he's had plenty of opportunities to do that this year. If they ever decide to come out with League of Extraordinary Men 2, he may never leave the theater!

Well in Taken 3 Liam Neeson once again finds his world turned upside down when he returns home one morning only to find his ex wife Lenore murdered in his bed and the cops waiting there to arrest him for it. He then, after a daring escape, sets out on a mission to clear his name and find the real murderers. Along the way he runs into evil Russians, dirty businessmen, and a clever cop who are all trying to track him down before he can figure out what really happened.

Luc Besson actually writes a decent story for this obvious money grab of a movie as there are a number of plot twists in this classic whodunit but the problem lies with Megaton. I swear this man would screw up filming his own daughter's graduation if given the chance as he would chop it all to hell and make it so incoherent you wouldn't know if were watching a graduation or a French porn.

He has absolutely no clue how to film an action scene and apparently he gives his actors zero direction on what he's wanting from them as it feels like I'm Star Wars Episode II at times. Neeson looks like he's an alien who is seeing and communicating with a teenage girl for the first time in his life and this is the same guy who was in Schindler's List! All of a sudden he now doesn't know how to act when a beautiful woman is hitting on him? Come on Lame-o-tron!

This movie is better than I thought it was going to be but man it still sucked. The action scenes are awful and it stops caring about making any kind of sense midway through the film; I rate it as really WEAK!