Taken 3 is the third installment of the Taken franchise, and hopefully the last, because I don't know how many more people need to take Bryan Mills' skills for granted until the world realizes that you shouldn't mess with him, or his family, because he will find you, and he will kill you. This movie is an action/thriller that takes place in Los Angeles. Liam Neeson is an Irish born actor, born William Neeson, in 1952. His first high profile film was Excalibur directed by John Boorman. Some other popular works he's been are Star War's Episode I as Qui-Gon Jinn, Ducard in Batman Begins, and the voice of Aslan in the Chronicle's of Narnia. He's starred in many more movies such as The Grey, Taken, and Clash of the Titans. According to Liam Neeson's IMBD page, his most embarrassing acting moment was when he auditioned for Fezzik, the giant from Princess Bride, and Rob Reiner was disgusted when he found out that Neeson was ONLY 6'4". Liam Neeson, as Bryan Mills, is no longer the predator in a foreign country, but now the prey in his familiar home of Los Angeles, looking to clear his name of murder and find the true killer. According to IMBD, Taken 3 received a rating of 6.1/10 by the viewers 48,000,000 budgetpening weekend 39,201,657, and the gross was 85,549,462 in the US, with 267,549,462 worldwide as of February 11th, 2015.
As the title gives away, Taken 3, is similar to the first two Taken movies, involving Bryan Mills, his ex-wife, and his daughter, being harassed in some way by foreign terrorists, and the American government. The one major difference is that in the third movie Mills being chased, rather than doing the chasing. In Neeson's other works, he often places a mentor role to a younger male character, or multiple younger characters, such as in Batman Begins and The Chronicles of Narnia. Taken 3, when thinking of other movies, reminds me of two other movies, Three Days to Kill, and The Family. Three Days to Kill is about a sick agent trying to take down a big terrorist, while trying to reconnect with the love of his life and his daughter, as well as receive trial treatments in exchange for taking down the terrorist. However, his love, and daughter don't approve of what he is doing. Similar to Mills' attempting to protect his family from his past. The second movie, The Family, is about an ex-mob family that is
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I don't really know what the importance of this movie would be, other than the fact that it can be a movie that is less controversial. It's a lot more friendly than Fifty Shades of Grey, and has much less conflict than American Sniper. I've noticed recently that there has been a lot of sequels coming out lately, like Pitch Perfect 2, coming out soon, and a second Magic Mike coming out soon as well (Heck Yeah!). So the fact that they made a third Taken movie, it doesn't really surprise me. Although, I would have been shocked if it was Mills' daughter who was kidnapped again, because that girl obviously is doing something wrong, getting kidnapped and targeted all the time. The terrorists are probably not the smart to keep messing with him, because lets face it, Bryan Mills is a badass, and Liam Neeson just adds to the badass-ary. Since there is a lot of violence and things along those lines, I'm going to agree with the pg-13 rating on it. However, I think that it is geared more towards the older ages, like 20's and up, because it is very action packed. One of the stereotypes that shows up in this that the antagonists are foreign, with bad accents, and big guns. Really bad accents, and even bigger guns.
One of the things that I really like about these movies, is that when he survives something, it can be explained, so you aren't left wondering how he survived a car crash and explosion. I honestly didn't really see any weaknesses because I personally really liked the movie. Despite being skeptical about the fact that there is a third Taken movie, and wondering how great of a father Bryan Mills can be if he is some how dragged through another kidnapping case, but this third movie threw a curve to the viewers and I think that it worked out well. Bryan Mills is no less bad-ass than in the other two movies. I believe that the movie was just as good as the other two Taken films, although I don't remember the second Taken movie entirely. From what I remember of the first one, I really liked the movie. I think that they did a good job making it interesting while keeping up the same general idea of the, of the ex-agent trying to save his family. There are a couple reasons as to why this will be memorable for me. Liam Neeson is an awesome actor and his voice is up there with Morgan Freeman's in my book. I think that they did a good job, of switching around the story line so that, it was still interesting, as I stated before.
I do have a couple of the Chronicles of Narnia movies with him in it, but other that, I don't believe I have any of the others. On the other hand, I have seen The Grey, Batman Returns, and Clash of the Titans, and I enjoyed all of them. I've watched enough Liam Neeson, to assume that when he comes out with another movie, I'm probably going to enjoy it. I know for a fact my friend enjoyed it. Looking into the Rotten Tomatoes review on Taken 3, the movie only got a 3.4/10. I also found another website, themoviereport.com that is saying that it's time for Bryan Mills to slip into retirement.
When looking into this, I definitely realized that I'm not the best at reviewing movies, because, obviously they disagree with my opinion. I also think that I enjoyed doing this over the ad review.
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