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The most popular film at the box office last week was Liam Neeson‘s Taken 3, which took in almost $40 million in its first three days. It did not, however, take in the nation’s critics, only 11% of whom rated it favorably (Silver Screen Videos was not among that 11%). Although the critics had lots of reasons to dislike the movie, one common theme was the nearly universal loathing of the film’s confusing, headache-inducing action scenes.
Specifically, the movie’s big set piece is a freeway chase scene about halfway through the film that is one of the worst examples of the genre that I can recall. Sheila O’Malley of RogerEbert.com summed it up as follows:
I don’t have access to clips of the car chase scene. But I can show you a similar chase scene from the previous movie in the series, Taken 2, also directed by Olivier Megaton:
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