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Analysis Of The Movie 'Taken 3'
With the movies "Taken" and "Taken 2", Oliver Megaton tries to top his two movies with "Taken 3", but he fails to succeed and got a bad movie rating. The main character Brain Mills (Liam Neeson) is a highly trained killer and has many people who dislike him. Which leads to the killing of his ex-wife in the third movie of taken. Mr. Mills sets off in the movie running from the cop Frank Dotzler in Los Anglos to prove that he did not kill his ex-wife Lenore while trying to keep in touch with his daughter Kim. Many people do not like the movie "Taken 3" due to the lack of understanding of the film and how poorly the shots and editing was. However, the movie focuses use on Mr. Mills not giving up and fighting to prove he did not kill his ex-wife Lenore and still keeping in touch with Kim.
Critic Roger Ebert was very disappointed in the movie "Taken 3". The first thing he pointed out in his article is the title. He says, "That the title doesn't go with the movie" (par. 1Ebert). This one I have to disagree with Ebert because there is something being taken. It might not be a kidnapping, but in this movie Lenore's life was taken by a killer. Ebert also said, "The director Megaton was both Lazy and tremendously overwrought" (par.
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He knew that there would be big consequences if he did not find what he was looking for, but he knew that he had to prove his innocents. The director, Olivier Megaton, show us through this movie that you can't give up on something right away. You have to go with your gut feeling, even if you second guess yourself. Megaton said, "Care had been given to the plot…" (par. 1Ebert). With the plot of the story makes you get a good understand of the movies theme. Taken 3 had a lot of negativity throughout the whole movie, but Megaton did a few good things with the story line that made a good theme for the

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