When the two men face off briefly at one point and Mills protests his innocence, Dotzler responds with some blather about how thatвЂ™s for the courts to decide. Or rather, the film seems uncertain about DotzlerвЂ™s uncertainty: One minute, heвЂ™s determined that Mills is a menace the next minute, heвЂ™s not all that concerned about catching him. The police inspector who leads the manhunt, Franck Dotzler (Forest Whitaker), seems uncertain about the manвЂ™s guilt from the get-go. ThereвЂ™s little urgency to the wrong-man plot, since the film doesnвЂ™t know what to do with the people chasing Mills. ThatвЂ™s a very different thing, and it actually calls for a different set of storytelling and filmmaking skills - none of which appear to be in evidence here. Taken 3, unfortunately, feeds less off MillsвЂ™s protectiveness - his distinguishing character trait - and more off a standard revenge-story setup, crossed with a wan, pseudo-Hitchcockian accused-man-tries-to-find-the-real-killers tale.

WhatвЂ™s made the Taken films sorta-kinda-maybe work in the past has been the way MillsвЂ™s over-the-top killing sprees have been driven by his tender, obsessive concern for his family those are the kinds of broad juxtapositions that writer/producer Luc Besson specializes in. (IвЂ™m not giving anything away thatвЂ™s not in the trailer.)ДЄnd thereвЂ™s your first problem. Could Bryan and Lenore wind up rekindling their romance? Well, weвЂ™ll never know, because Lenore soon winds up dead in his bed, and our hero is framed for the murder. Meanwhile, Mills still has feelings for his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen, who was given a bit more to do in Taken 2), whose marriage to sweaty, wealthy businessman Stuart (Dougray Scott) may be falling apart. When we catch up to him this time, NeesonвЂ™s Bryan Mills is happily buying a giant stuffed panda for his daughter KimвЂ™s (Maggie Grace) birthday he still thinks of her as a child, even though sheвЂ™s now living with her boyfriend and secretly freaking out over a pregnancy test. But Taken 3 is bad enough that it may just end it. Have we found a name for this genre yet, this revival of movies where aging badasses with very particular sets of skills go on kill-fests to protect their loved ones? вЂњDadsploitationвЂќ? вЂњFather Kills BestвЂќ? I think I like my friend Matt PriggeвЂ™s description: вЂњPeppy Fogey Fighting Romp.вЂќ Anyway, 2008вЂ™s Taken, with Liam Neeson as an ex-CIA black-ops guy trying to save his daughter from Albanian sex traffickers, could be said to have started it (or restarted it).

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