I still enjoyed this film even with all of its holes, but don't expect something spectacular, but may be the last time you see Neeson in an action role

Rating: 6/10 (13 October 2012)

This film was enjoyable but was with its flaws, the storyline was enjoyable, but I think the main thing about this movie that annoyed me, is that it seemed to go by far to quickly, with action being little, making it a little more disappointing than the last taken film. I think the main cause of this is Neeson, he is great especially at acting the caring father, which carries the main storyline, but in this film he is simply not as energetic as he has been in previous films, I know this is because he is getting older, but it really destroys the point in the film.
So what they have tried to do in this film is make it look as though Neeson is getting older and is a little more tired than the previous Taken film, this makes him look even more exhausted as a character, and although all of his lines are given with the sentiment of love behind them to his family, because of the way he is portrayed many of his lines lack emotion enough to make them interesting.
There were many other annoying plot holes such as the point Neeson's character calls his life 'Honey' throughout even though they're not together, a little irritating to say the least, as well as the end left with whether he got back with her at the very end, completely unanswered, but at least we know whether the daughter passed her driving test by completing a perfect parallel park!
It was the pushing forward of trivial parts of the story such as the useless involvement of the boyfriend purely to make a semi-funny joke at the end, its was kind of frustrating. Are they setting things up for Taken 3 where the boyfriend is taken, and Neeson is too tired to go save him, just spit balling ideas, a little weird though.
The fighting scenes were also short and the camera switched about so much to look like action, when nothing was really happening. You got a sense of Neeson's former epicosity but it wasn't there as much as in previous films. There's also small other issues like the amount of damage that is done in this film to other peoples property is completely forgotten about, and even though people have been killed everyone gets away with it, its a little odd.
Nevertheless I still enjoyed this film even with all of its holes, but don't expect something spectacular, but may be the last time you see Neeson in an action role.