Taken 3 (Unrated)

Unfortunately, Taken 3 will be remembered as the one where Neeson just couldn't save the day.

Taken 3 delivers a stimulating and different story to the franchise, but combines it with unbelievable and poorly presented action sequences (however entertaining they may be).

Taken 3 ends as it began -- another segment in a bloated, lazily drawn cash cow that offers a few laughs and high octane chases.

Taken 3's inability to commit to and fully explore the significance of its leading issues leaves much of the emotional payoff uncharted and muddled in the wake of unwarranted complications.

Let's face facts...we all were 'Taken' in by this pseudo punchy action yarn that no longer generates the destructive heat it once punctuated with carefree confidence.