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Taken 3 Movie Review

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Review for the film " Taken 3"

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Runtime: 1 Hour 52 Minutes

Certificate: A

Released: 09-01-2015

Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime

Similar To: Zombies Vs. Robots, Them That Follow, Ballerina (2024), The Man With The Iron Heart

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CAST & CREW

Al Sapienza

Al Vicente

Abbey Ferrell

Dougray Scott

Forest Whitaker

Jon Gries

Jonny Weston

Leland Orser

Sam Spruell

Famke Janssen

Maggie Grace

Liam Neeson

Luc Besson

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Producer:

Luc Besson

Music Director:

Nathaniel Mechaly

Editor:

Nicolas Trembasiewicz

Director:

Olivier Megaton

Movie Actor:

Liam Neeson

Movie Actress:

Famke Janssen

Maggie Grace

Costume Designer:

Olivier Beriot

Art Director:

Nanci Roberts

First Assistant Director:

Ludovic Bernard

Second Assistant Director:

Trent Dempsey

Kevin Frilet

Marie Rolindes

Director of Photography:

Eric Kress

Line Producer:

Michael Mandaville

Visual Effects Producer:

Simon Descamps

Still Photographer:

Roger Arpajou

Production Company:

EuropaCorp

M6 Films

Production Manager:

Henri Deneubourg

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Dean Humphreys

Frederic Dubois

Assistant Editor:

Sophie Chatin

Screenplay Writer:

Robert Mark Kamen

Luc Besson

Gaffer:

Mohan Valmy

Music Editor:

David Menke

Production Designer:

Sébastien Inizan

Set Decorator:

Linda Spheeris

Storyboard Artist:

Jonathan Delerue

Casting Associate:

Deanna Brigidi

Makeup Artist:

Ren Rohling

Frédérique Foglia

Bill Myer

Hair Stylist:

Frederique Arguello

Post Production Supervisor:

Guillaume Parent

Special Effects Coordinator:

Elia P Popov

Stan Parks

Special Effects Technician:

Lenny Dalrymple

Kenneth Bosse

John Carlucci

Bryan Wohlers

Tom Templeman

Michael Duenas

Stunt Coordinator:

Laurent Demianoff

Stunt Performer:

Boris Martinez

Brandy Rodríguez

Brian Machleit

Cuco Usín

Dacio Caballero

Doug Coleman

Bobby Jordan

Stunt Double:

Tammie Baird

Digital Compositor:

Niranjan Siva

Gilles Giordan

Damien Delrue

Visual Effects Artist:

Stephan Guerin

Set Dresser:

Nelson Hagood

R Travis Beck

Michael Luce

Sound Mixer:

Stéphane Bucher

Mike Filosa

Boom Operator:

Trevor Stott

Jerome Rabu

Assistant Art Director:

Julie Mons

Dominique Moisan

Production Supervisor:

Jason Pinardo

Supporting Actor:

Forest Whitaker

Leland Orser

Jonny Weston

Dougray Scott

Jon Gries

Sam Spruell

Actress:

Abbey Ferrell

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Sarunas Jackson

Johnny Harvill

Tony Demil

Steve Janousek

Judi Beecher

Katie Mary Garland

Steve Coulter

Mikael Buxton

Nazareth Dairian

Neil Macwan

Preston Baker

Reuven Avi

Robert Bryan Davis

Stefanie Kleine

John Manison

Jimmy Palumbo

Jimmy Gonzales

John T Martin

Al Sapienza

Al Vicente

Catherine Dyer

Cedric Cirotteau

Christabelle Rose

Ciaran Charles

Dale Liner

Derrick Worsley

Don Harvey

Sammy Ray Hill

Dylan Bruno

Erick Wofford

Francis Dobrisky

Fred Galle

Gregory Fears

Haley Craft

Francois Heller

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The third and final installment of the ' Taken Taken is a Franco-American crime action thriller d >> Read More... ' series is here, directed by Olivier Megaton. It’s an English - French language movie.

Plot: The story starts with Bryan Mills ( Liam Neeson I don't know who you are. I don't know wha >> Read More... ), a former covert operative who visits his daughter Kim ( Maggie Grace Shannon Rutherford’s cosseted whippersnapper chara >> Read More... ) and ex-wife Lenore ( Famke Janssen She is known to be one of the most desirable femal >> Read More... ). It is then that he comes to know about Lenore's troubled relationship with Stuart (Dougray Scott). A twist comes when the very next day Bryan receives a text from Lenore for breakfast, but when he arrives at her place, she is already dead. L.A.P.D. Inspector Frank Dotzler (Forest Whittaker) arrests him, but he manages to escape.

Now Mills wants to find the real killer. He contacts her daughter Kim, and she reveals to him about her pregnancy and that she smells something fishy, as Stuart has hired bodyguards as never before. Many attempts are made to kill Bryan, but he survives each time. Bryan kidnaps Stuart to know the truth, who takes the name of his ex-business partner Oleg Malenkov (Sam Spruell) behind Lenore's killing. But when Bryan is close in killing Oleg, the story offers a twist, when it is learned that actually planner behind this all was Stuart.

He killed Lenore and used Bryan to kill Oleg to get the insurance money. Then, with an action-packed climax, Bryan overpowers Stuart and hands him over to LAPD inspector. The story ends when Kim expresses her desire to name her child after her mother, Lenore.

Analysis: When we watch the sequel of a successful movie, we have high hopes for it. But in ' Taken 3 Click to look into! >> Read More... ', all the hopes shatter as the earlier installments were much better than this one. Be it plot, direction or screenplay, it lets us down in each department. The box office earnings of the movie were satisfactory, but that was only because of the marketing and it being a sequel of a hit series.

Star Performances: The film survives only because of Liam Neeson as he is the only one who seems to have done justice to his role. His hard work deserves appreciation. The director Olivier Megaton can't be convicted for the failure of this film because the real culprit is the script. Why would someone pay for such a dumb story? And to add to the casualties, no other actor, technical departments have added their contribution.

What's there ????

1. Liam Neeson saves the disaster to an extent by his power packed performance.

2. Some of the stunts, especially by Liam Neeson are impressive.

What's not there ????

1. From a thriller movie, we expect some major twists in the tale which turns the story upside down, but here the film moves on a smooth track throughout.

2. The writers, Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, could have waited a little longer and written something that interests the audiences.

3. The screenplay is below average.

4. The action scenes are also stale.

Verdict: 'Taken 3 ' could be watched by the fans of this franchise but after watching it you'll realize, that it's high time to end this series.