Unfortunately, those fleeting moments of camp end up being some of the most entertaining parts of the entire movie. It’s horrible, but the kind of horrible that will get laughs out of fans of the series since they know this greeting card swill is there purely to contrast with the endless stream of growling and ass-kickery to come shortly. The threequel kicks off with some hysterically cornball sequences involving Liam Neeson gifting a giant stuffed panda to his daughter (Maggie Grace) and making doe eyes with his recently remarried ex-wife (Famke Janssen). ‘Taken 3’, on the other hand, isn’t just bad. ‘Taken 2’ may have been a bad movie, but at least it was insane enough in its awfulness to offer audiences a little fun. Now six years have gone by, Neeson’s action roles are ubiquitous, and a movie as lazily ill-conceived as ‘Taken 3’ is about as welcome as a kick to the nuts from a retired government operative. When ‘Taken’ debuted and a grizzled Liam Neeson mass-murdered his way into all of our hearts, there was undeniably something special about that particular slice of Eurotrash.
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