This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies described in our Cookies Policy.
You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site.
To learn more see our Cookies Policy.
THIS WEEK SEES the third installment of the Taken franchise make its way into cinemas.
In this installment, Bryan Mills (AKA the unluckiest man in the world) is wrongfully accused of the murder of his ex-wife and must call upon his “particular set of skills” to track down the real killers.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Reviews for the film have started coming in and, spoiler alert, it won’t be winning any Oscars. Here are some of the choicest quotes.
Variety‘s film critic was similarly tired of Taken’s antics, writing that audiences would be “hostages to tedium”.
Running out of kidnapped relatives for Liam Neeson’s ex-CIA killing machine to rescue, scribes Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen turn him into a fugitive framed for murder in “Taken 3,” a mind-numbing, crash-bang misfire that abandons chic European capitals for the character’s own backyard.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote that it failed to live up to its predecessors in pretty much anyway and called its plot implausible. (Well, duh.)
…a stuttering plot comparatively light on action and stuffed with red herrings and inconsequential characters (Forest Whitaker, for one, plays one of the most vacuous roles of his career), Besson’s team has signed off the trilogy with a whimper rather than the kind of unfettered bang delivered by the first two films.
Tuesday 5 November, 2024
Tuesday 5 November, 2024
Download our app
Here are the most scathing quotes from the Taken 3 reviews
THIS WEEK SEES the third installment of the Taken franchise make its way into cinemas.
In this installment, Bryan Mills (AKA the unluckiest man in the world) is wrongfully accused of the murder of his ex-wife and must call upon his “particular set of skills” to track down the real killers.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Reviews for the film have started coming in and, spoiler alert, it won’t be winning any Oscars. Here are some of the choicest quotes.
Writing for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw said of the film:
Bradshaw also reluctantly speculated on the possible plot of Taken 4:
Variety‘s film critic was similarly tired of Taken’s antics, writing that audiences would be “hostages to tedium”.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote that it failed to live up to its predecessors in pretty much anyway and called its plot implausible. (Well, duh.)
Digital Spy didn’t hold back at all and was fairly scathing throughout its one-star review.
On Liam Neeson:
On the film itself:
And the final punch:
Finally, Robbie Collin of The Telegraph simply billed it as a “tragedy” where nothing is taken “other than arguably the biscuit”.
Poor Liam.
Essential map shows every country where Liam Neeson has killed someone >
5 of Liam Neeson’s most kick-ass moments from the Taken 3 trailer >
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
film reviews Liam Neeson taken 3 taken the piss