She tells her father that she is pregnant and that Stuart is acting scared and hired bodyguards which he has never done before.īryan tails Stuart's car but is ambushed and pursued by another SUV, and his car is pushed over the edge of a cliff. He tells her that he is looking for the real murderer and that she should keep safe. Bryan removes a surveillance bug that, unknown to her, was planted by Dotzler. She ends up feeling nauseated in class, and runs to the restroom where Bryan is waiting and surprises her (he had put a drug in the drink, and now gave her an antidote). She purchases her daily yogurt drink which is marked "Drink Me Now". He contacts Kim at Lenore's funeral via his former covert co-workers and friends instructing her to maintain her "daily routine". While in-transit, Bryan frees himself, commandeers and hijacks the police cruiser, escapes, and downloads phone records from LAPD's investigation database onto a thumb drive. LAPD detectives arrive at the gas station and arrest him. He retraces Lenore's travels to a remote gas station-convenience store and finds surveillance footage of her abduction into a van by unidentified men with unique hand tattoos. Meanwhile, LAPD Inspector Frank Dotzler quickly becomes familiar with Bryan's background and organizes a citywide manhunt.īryan retreats to a prepared safe-house that is equipped with weapons and surveillance electronics. LAPD units immediately appear, based on an anonymous 911 call, and try to arrest Bryan, who resists and eventually escapes through a large garage floor drain into the public drainage system. Bryan agrees, returns from the bagel store to his apartment, and discovers her lifeless body in his bedroom. The following day, Bryan receives a text from Lenore asking to meet him for breakfast and bagels.
Later, Stuart visits Bryan and asks him to stay away from Lenore as they attempt to reconcile. Although she refused the invitation, she shows up at his apartment revealing her distress over marital problems with her current husband, Stuart, and indicates her desire to be with Bryan, who feels the same way, but says they need to refrain until her marriage is resolved.
After an awkward visit, he invites his ex-wife, Lenore, to dinner. apartment to deliver an early birthday gift.
for full review Author : Dustin Putman, covert operative, Bryan Mills, visits his daughter Kim, who just discovered she's pregnant, at her L.A. Also pulled into the high-stakes goings-on: college student Kim, still grappling with the discovery that she is pregnant, and Lenore's husband, Stuart (Dougray Scott), not exactly the most trustworthy of fellows. With LAPD Sergeant Franck Dotzler (Forest Whitaker) and his ragtag officers closing in, wanted-man Bryan narrowly escapes and sets out to find the people behind this unthinkable crime. Enter "Taken 3," wherein Bryan and an unhappily married Lenore have no sooner begun to rekindle their relationship when tragedy strikes close to home. These unlucky souls have been through it all-except, that is, for actual death and being wrongfully set up for a homicide they didn't commit. It's mildly competent and mostly diverting, but the formula is getting stale, and it feels like everyone involved knows it.Ī few years have passed since ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen), and daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) narrowly escaped kidnapping and torture in Istanbul, and even more since Bryan saved Kim from shady Paris sex traffickers. The stakes are just as high this time-his family is in danger, and he has been framed for the murder of someone dear to him-while the screenplay by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen gives 2012's "Taken 2" some hefty competition for sheer absurdity.
This third and hopefully final series entry is more of the same in that Liam Neeson (2014's "Non-Stop") is, once again, beating up and outsmarting everyone who wants to take him down. "Taken 3" would aptly be subtitled "Liam Neeson Kicks Ass" if it wasn't such a foregone conclusion.