"Taken 3" (2015)

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

In the last review I posted on this site, I mentioned that I'd started a new blog on Blog.com. Well, I turned my back on that because the site was becoming far too unstable; most of the time, it just didn't load. (It seems fine at the moment, but I didn't want to take that chance.) So now I've started afresh on Wordpress.com. The first review I posted on that blog was a compilation of all the 2015 releases I'd seen so far, starting with this one.

To tell you the truth, the only reason I saw this is because The Theory of Everything started earlier than I thought, and I didn't find out until I'd already bought the ticket, so I figured I might as well see something. What I got was, hands down, the worst of the Taken series so far. The plot doesn't even involve a kidnapping anymore; it's just another dime-a-dozen revenge story. And the action scenes are some of the worst ever, taking the unfortunately clichéd shaky cam and frenetic editing another step to absurdity; most of the time, I simply could not tell what was happening. That's really all I have to say: this movie's just worthless. But like I said, I paid for The Theory of Everything, so I can at least take comfort in the fact that my money went towards what I'm sure is a much better movie.

My rating: 40%