The surprising thing is that it actually looks fairly decent (certainly better than Taken 2 anyway) and it has a serious Bourne vibe to it with the stakes and scale being higher than ever before. The LAPD, FBI and CIA (and RSPCA, WWE... sorry I’ll stop now) are all after Brian Mills (Liam Neeson) who must be totally fed up with how his life has gone ever since Gracey’s birthday party at the start of the first film. He must be a tough bloke to put up with this shitstorm and the featurette we have for you today confirms what we already knew; if every badass character from all of Badassdom emptied their load in a test tube and grew a baby, the aged and grizzly result would be Brian Mills.
We get a background on the guy thanks to the exposition being shovelled so helpfully by Forest Whittaker’s evil I’m the baddy roar character Franck Dotzler – a man who must have spent his entire life telling people how to spell his name. No wonder he’s pissed.
It seems like this will be the final film in the series, but it never needed to become a series in the first place really and with Hollywood being the way it is these days I’m sure they’ll find a way to get Liam Neeson out and about killing again. Maybe someone someone will nick his favourite geranium. I’d pay to see that. And my trousers are practically quivering at the thought of a Bourne/Mills crossover movie.
Anyway, enough about my pants. Watch the featurette and let us know what you think.
Tak3n is out on January 8th. Good luck.