This time what’s been taken is Bryan Mills...reputation! You’re watching Beyond The Trailer’s review
of Taken THREE!
Yes, they took his daughter, and then they took his wife! Who’s left?! Well because
this isn’t a comedy that leaves out his dog or his mailman, so all that’s left is
his GOOD NAME! So for this third entry in the Taken franchise, Bryan Mills finds himself
framed for his wife’s murder - which sends him on the run as he tries to evade the police,
not too hard with Forest Whitaker’s lazy eye?, and find out the identity of the real
murderer! Maybe it was...the one armed man? That’s right! Richard Kimbell called and
he wants his storyline back! It would seem that Mills IS guilty of one crime, identity
theft! But speaking of identity, the Taken franchise is certainly being quite clever
in forging its own. For instance, since Liam Neeson’s Bryan Mills is known for having
a special set of skills, part of the ad campaign for Taken 3 included the chance to win an
endorsement from Mills on the business networking website LinkedIn for YOUR special set of skills!
And you can bet that the Taken movies are featured prominently on Neeson’s resume,
as the franchise not only revived his career back in 2009 but continues to produce his
biggest box office hits. Like the first Taken, this third entry also hits theaters in January
- when there’s little to no box office competition - plus the director of the second entry, Olivier
Megaton, returns - as does Maggie Grace. Oscar winner Whitaker joins the cast, and so does
Dougray Scott - probably as part of that Albanian mob which has been plaguing Mills ever since
he was a total kill joy about his daughter joining their sex slave operation. Man, life
has got to be tough for Scott ever since he had to pass on the role of Wolverine because
of a scheduling conflict between the first X-Men movie and Mission Impossible 2. But
at least he’s still working... Does the Taken franchise still work? Or are the days
of twenty-five to forty-five million dollar budgets
with two hundred and almost four hundred million returns over?
returns over?