Wow. I can't believe it. I actually lied to myself in seeing this film for the sake of the trailer, which was a better short film than the feature length version. This film is outrageously terrible that i was cringing in embarrassment during the first act. I can't believe how amateur the cinematography, if its worthy at all to be labeled that since it was more like a 5 year old filming a birthday party with a video camera for the first time. The editing is utterly childish. These editors apparently don't know crap about editing action and performance. Wow. I could've directed, edited, and photograph a better Tak3n than this crap. Forest Whitaker, an academy award winner, was nothing more than a stereotype cop that eats bagels the whole movie. Are you kidding me? What a waste of great talent.
The writing is absolutely cliché and predictable to the point where when the twist comes at the end it has no impact whatsoever. Liam Neeson does his thing, but with age, he can barely run in a foot chase with cops half his age, so they chop it so fast that he just disappears like a ghost. Apparently the director of this pile of crap did the last pile of crap and has never learned how to film a car chase or watched The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A. or Michael Bay films. Even the shaky action scenes and chases in the Bourne films are light-years above this amateur movie. It's a poor man's version of The Fugitive crossed with a B movie version of an old Jason Bourne. What a waste. Hope Run All Night, aka Taken 4, is a better movie.
The writing is absolutely cliché and predictable to the point where when the twist comes at the end it has no impact whatsoever. Liam Neeson does his thing, but with age, he can barely run in a foot chase with cops half his age, so they chop it so fast that he just disappears like a ghost. Apparently the director of this pile of crap did the last pile of crap and has never learned how to film a car chase or watched The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A. or Michael Bay films. Even the shaky action scenes and chases in the Bourne films are light-years above this amateur movie. It's a poor man's version of The Fugitive crossed with a B movie version of an old Jason Bourne. What a waste. Hope Run All Night, aka Taken 4, is a better movie.