Why is our hero running away from the boys in blue rather than karate chopping his way through Europe again? Because Luc Besson is running out of ideas, that’s why. You wanted this series to have a legacy, did you? Well, now it has. And Taken 3 will forever be remembered as the movie which made us all realize it. His eventual escape is, I imagine, the point when moviegoers across the world whipped out their phones and typed The Question: “How old is Liam Neeson, exactly?” If he was moving any slower he’d be going backwards. My daughter could catch him, and she can’t even walk yet. But Jesus Christ, how can they not catch him? I could catch him. There’s a sequence early in Taken 3 which I presume is supposed to be a tense on-foot chase across streets, through alleyways, over fences, Liam Neeson lumbers around like a big Irish manatee with the LAPD hot on his heels.
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