I think it's a big mistake to have Olivier Megaton come back to direct Taken 3. As an end to the Taken franchise, or at least from what has been indicated so far, they should have gotten the first Taken movie's director Pierre Morel.
With Morel's Taken, he made Liam Neeson looked really badass with a distinct style in showing his fight moves. Not quite similar but at least closer to how The Bourne Identity left an impact with its audience. Megaton not only didn't make Neeson look badass, but the hand-to-hand combat looked really weak.
As for Neeson, he should keep pumping out all these action movies as many as he can right now because he's really not as young anymore. The way he ran away from the cops in the first action sequence, you can tell he couldn't really run fast anymore and a body double had to be used most of the time.
Taken 3 really felt like The Fugitive: Neeson as Harrison Ford while Forest Whitaker as Tommy Lee Jones. And this movie would have fit really well in that era, too; because it felt outdated to be watching this kind of a cat-and-mouse chase today without bringing something new to the table.
Maggie Grace's character progressed quite a fair bit in Taken 2, and now it was as if that movie never happened. Some argued that her character shouldn't have given so much in the last movie, but I was alright with it - minus the grenade-throwing bits.
And there's one scene here where Neeson hid under a guard's dead body in the hallway, come on, he's over 6 feet tall; the other guard had to be partially blind to not see him.
This movie didn't have that much to offer except for being a mediocre action movie. This wasn't a Taken movie, nobody was taken long enough anyway.
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