Film Review - Taken 3

I am not even going to put a spoiler warning on here because if you can't predict everything this film has to offer by watching the trailer then you shouldn't bother going to the cinema, ever. 

The film is so predictable I actually wonder if I have seen it already. Very much in a Thunderball / Never Say Never Again sort of way.

The set-up is entirely obvious, the cop insists on chasing him even though he knows he isn't guilty, because that is procedure, but once he catches him he just lets him go despite the huge number of other offences he has committed through the film. 

The archetypal bad guys are so bad that even in an enclosed room their leader, a supposed Spetsnatz super soldier, armed with an automatic machine gun which he cycles through several magazines can't get anywhere near hitting our hero. Meanwhile he takes out people with wine bottles, knives, fists and so on. So we are past the ridiculous and into the stupid long before he uses a Porsche to tackle a private jet.

Unfortunately, the sound quality in the showing I went to was terrible. From about half way through the voice track went overly heavy on the bass and the treble dropped out and it sounded like the cast were underwater. Weirdly enough though, the music and sound effects tracks were unaffected so I doubt it was something as simple as a hardware fault with the cinema. While this didn't help with my enjoyment of the film, I was already paying little enough attention that it probably didn't make it any worse either. 

Worst film so far this year. Not terrible. Just completely and perfectly average. 

Rating 5/10