Movie: Taken 3

Who's your daddy?

Ooh yeah! Certainly waited for this movie. What I've been dying to know is who's the villain this time? Is it still a relative or kinsman of the Albanians? (Seriously, if it is, bitter much.) Who else got pissed off this time?

The scene opens much like in the first movie. Bryan Mills is looking for a birthday present for his daughter. He ends up buying a stuffed panda, goes to his daughter's apartment where his gift wasn't well received. His daughter appears frazzled after discovering that she's pregnant right before her father arrives. Yeah, Kim the lovely daughter, has brought trouble upon herself. First was lying about attending a concert, then too much Facetime at the pool in Turkey while her dad was trying to contact her, and now getting knocked up. I would call it justice if she was the one who got harmed in the movie but nay, to my dismay.

Don't worry, Daddy's gonna fix this...

Bryan Mills got framed for the murder of his wife after he went out for a bagel run. He goes off to seek the killers and in his way stands the bagel badger.

 I better get some cream cheese to go with the bagel

I have no doubts with this guy's acting chops. Forest Whitaker could easily play the role of a good cop. Sadly, all he did in this movie was just figuring out Bryan Mill's next move. As a good cop, I would have loved to see him thwart Bryan Mill's moves and bring him in for custody, make us want to hate him for doing so. But in this movie, we despise him for touching the bagels.

Soon enough we discover that the killers were the Russian mob (collectively speaking) but the brains behind it is Kim' s stepfather. He owes the Russian money and decided to cash in on his wife's insurance policy. Since the first movie, Liam Neeson' s got all the moves of a bad-ass daddy. All the bad guys were accounted for and put out of their misery. I wished he went bad-assed dad on Kim' s boyfriend.

Taken 3 may not be at par with the first two movies. The first part totally awed us since nobody expected Liam Neeson to do chase scenes on foot, kicks, punches and stuff. The second movie shows us serious tracking skills that I was stupefied. All I could say is that this mellowed down to a fitting end. On a lighter note, kudos to the Russian boss who did his action scenes in his tighty whiteys. That was something.