I'm not gonna repeat what other rewiewers have already done quite funnily and wittily and, above all, to the point. My main goal is to somewhat move the overall score into the right direction, calibrate it, so to speak.
So Liam Neeson, whom I personally find to be a fine master of his trade, found a new wormhole on how to make more easy money. First, it was the cheap-sequel trick (not him particularly, though Taken 2 and 3 were far from "proudly presents"), now being followed by the go-to-Germany-as-a-Hollywood-superstar-and-make-a-kraut-movie trick. The following seem to be the ingredients:
-bad plot (a reviewer mentioned ChatGPT, I concur)
-embarassing overacting of some extras, with no chance of a second take. No worries, Liam will balance it out. NOT!
-Nerve recking paraphrasing (actually, this aspect I liked), stuff like: "There's a BOMB under my seat!" - "Calm down, sir. So you're telling me, you think there's something under your seat? Like - a bomb, maybe? Did you put it there?"
Sometimes, having a big name just isn't enough.
Also, on a side note, if a German police officer on duty in Berlin, Germany adresses some driver in German, and is being answered in German, he will not suddenly and without reason adress the female passenger with "Miss". We may call our cell phones "handys", which is stupid enough, but we do have German words for most other things or cases (in the words of Wittgenstein).
So Liam Neeson, whom I personally find to be a fine master of his trade, found a new wormhole on how to make more easy money. First, it was the cheap-sequel trick (not him particularly, though Taken 2 and 3 were far from "proudly presents"), now being followed by the go-to-Germany-as-a-Hollywood-superstar-and-make-a-kraut-movie trick. The following seem to be the ingredients:
-bad plot (a reviewer mentioned ChatGPT, I concur)
-embarassing overacting of some extras, with no chance of a second take. No worries, Liam will balance it out. NOT!
-Nerve recking paraphrasing (actually, this aspect I liked), stuff like: "There's a BOMB under my seat!" - "Calm down, sir. So you're telling me, you think there's something under your seat? Like - a bomb, maybe? Did you put it there?"
Sometimes, having a big name just isn't enough.
Also, on a side note, if a German police officer on duty in Berlin, Germany adresses some driver in German, and is being answered in German, he will not suddenly and without reason adress the female passenger with "Miss". We may call our cell phones "handys", which is stupid enough, but we do have German words for most other things or cases (in the words of Wittgenstein).