1: The biggest offense in Taken 3 is the editing. It's a mess. The fast edits in Taken 3 are meant to amp up a scene and create action where there is none. It's there to cover up bad choreography or a poorly shot and plotted action sequence. It's not a stylistic choice. Seriously, this film has more cuts than the hands of a paper factory worker.
2. At one point in the film Liam Neeson is on the run and needs to get in contact with his daughter. In a hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-frying-pan moment early in the film, we are told that Mills' daughter has a very rigid daily routine that includes buying the 4th yogurt drink in the fridge at a convenience store. When his daughter grabs the drink she notices a note that says "drink me now." Mills has now poisoned his daughter so she will be nauseous during class and have to use the bathroom, where he can then have a chat with her. All he had to do was put a note on the drink saying, "meet me in the bathroom at school at this time." Also, it would only take one person to buy the same drink and now that 4th drink is now in the 3rd spot.
3. As we know from watching the trailer, Mills' ex-wife is killed and the cops think he did it. Mills buys a bag of bagels from around the corner and goes home to find his ex-wife dead in his bed. Shortly after, the cops have him at gun point. Instead of giving himself up and explaining to the cops why he didn't do this crime, he beats them up and goes on the run. All he had to do was tell them to go around the corner and talk to the bagel girl, who would be able to tell the cops that she just saw this man a few minutes ago. What murderer in their right mind would kill their wife, go buy a bag of bagels and then go home to the scene of the crime to leisurely eat them over a cup of coffee? Not to mention the fact that Mills just blew up half of Turkey in order to save his ex-wife in Taken 2. What reason would he have to kill her now?
4. While running from the cops, Mills enters a random house that just so happens to have a trap door in the floor of the garage that leads to a sewer. Side note: A man accused of killing his wife, running from the cops escapes through a sewer. Sounds familiar? *cough* Fugitive *cough*
5. Mills somehow finds not one but two of the last remaining payphones in L.A.
6. Mills heads to a gas station and checks the surveillance footage that clearly shows his ex-wife getting abducted. While watching the footage, he's held at gunpoint by two cops. Instead of pleading with them to look at the footage, Mills says nothing. Shockingly, he doesn't even fight them off like he did at his house. He's captured willingly...
7. ...only to free himself while in the back of a squad car on the highway. He ejects one cop from the car and strangles the driver, creating a massive car accident involving multiple cars including a truck carrying a storage container, risking multiple innocent lives.
8. Mills is now in control of the cop car and being chased at high speeds by every cop in the city. In order to avoid their grasp, he drives into a parking garage and makes his way to the top of the garage, because that makes perfect sense when trying to evade the cops. Anyway, trapped like a mouse in a crazy cat ladies house, Mills has no choice but to throw it into reverse and hurl himself down the elevator shaft. The car plummets down the shaft and crashes in a heap at the bottom and immediately is engulfed in flames. 1.6 seconds later we see an arm emerge from the window. 2.4 seconds after that we see Mills on a rooftop somewhere. Who needs to see how our hero narrowly cheated death? Who needs suspense as our hero's life hangs in the balance? It's not like this is an action film or something.
9. A paranoid former CIA operative who has made numerous enemies doesn't lock his front door.
10. His daughter, who has been kidnapped more times than any character in the history of film, doesn't think about asking "who's there" when there is a knock upon her door, nor does she think about looking in the peephole.
11. When Mills, whose ex-wife's throat was slit, visits the morgue, we see that the freshly slit throat looks to be nothing more than a healed scar. Seriously, a first year film school makeup artist could do a better job.
12. Highly trained Spetnatz soldiers can't hit the broad side of a barn while shooting at a man less than 10 feet away.
13. At the end of the film, in a scene that was also shown in the trailer by the way, Mills' daughter is being held hostage in a plane that is taking off. Mills decides that the best way to rescue her is to just drive his car into the landing gear. Don't worry about the fact that if the plane was able to take off there would be no way for the plane with your daughter on it to land without crashing in a ball of fire.
14. Forest Whitaker is playing the exact same character he played in The Last Stand.
15. Mills has finally eluded the cops and is making his way down the road. The cops can't find Mills, but Rusian mobsters seem to have no problem with such things and proceed to force him off a cliff, where Mills survives his second exploding car. Later in the film via flashback, we actually see how Mills escapes. What a novel idea. Despite being in another car accident, Mills isn't shaken and has no signs of injury. He flags down a car and asks the driver if he can borrow it. He then travels a few miles down the road where, lo and behold, he finds the Russian mobsters who just forced him off the road at a liquor store. What proceeds is one of the worst fight scenes I've seen in years. It's poorly executed, poorly shot, poorly edited and overall poor. This can pretty much also sum up the entire film.
Originally Posted by Ricky
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