CE: The original Taken was the film that transformed Liam Neeson into a global action superstar; so it's no wonder the now-62-year-old has returned to the franchise not once, but twice. In Taken 3, director Olivier Megaton concludes the popular action franchise by bringing the story stateside — to Los Angeles — where Neeson's character, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills, faces his most personal fight yet. Framed for the murder of his ex-wife (Famke Janssen), Bryan must elude the L.A.P.D. and contend with a gang of ruthless Russian criminals, as he attempts to prove his innocence and apprehend the real perpetrators. It's a storyline lifted straight from The Fugitive, but despite the conscious effort by screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen to buck the series' tried-and-true formula, the results are mediocre at best. For viewers that still insist on checking out the movie on Blu-ray, it's at least some consolation that Taken 3 does not disappoint from an audiovisual perspective. Just bear in mind the law of diminishing returns when it comes to the quality of the film itself.
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