People watched and waited, and waited some more for the new Taken 3 movie to come out and it finally has! Like most of America, I went and watched it the night of it’s premiere, January 9th. All is I can say is wow. The cast and crew of the Taken series has wowed us once again. I was on the edge of my seat for almost the entirety of the movie. It was as if the action never stopped.
I have to admit I was a tad surprised at the storyline. Because I didn’t watch the trailer beforehand, I was expecting another kidnapping followed by the enduring fight to find the missing person, but instead I was surprised with the unlikely surprise of a murder mystery movie. For some people, I know it was a downer compared to the disappearances in the 1st two movies, but for me I loved it! I enjoyed it so much because I absolutely love watching murder mysteries. I love being able to try and find out who the murderer is before the characters in the movie do. Although some movies make it obvious who the killer was from the very beginning, I never felt that way in this movie. I was constantly being thrown through twists and turns. When I thought I knew who the killer was, I was thrown a total curveball and it wasn’t who I thought it was.
The movie has the majority of the same characters who have been in the last two but they did do something interesting that I’m not so sure how I feel about it. You saw a lot more of Stewart throughout the movie and you got to know more about him, but they changed the actor on us! In the first two movies, you see Stewart as older man with grey hair...basically he’s a lot older than Lennie. In the third movie though it’s as though Stewart went through a time warp. All of a sudden in the third movie he becomes a younger darker haired man. If they really did have to change the character, couldn’t they have at least gone with someone who was around the same age or looked similar. When I first saw him, I had thought that Lennie had gotten married a third time he looked that different. Aside from Stewart’s character, I still loved the movie a ton! It’s a movie that definitely recommend to everyone to go see!
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