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Taken 3 (2014)
Pffh... more like a horrible take on The Fugitive.
The movie is as fully cliché as any movie can get. I'm not talking about the cheesy plot, the horrible over-emphasized score that accompanies this piece of trash that shouldn't have been made, or the shaky camera shots throughout half the action scenes. I'm talking about everything, every little piece of what happens is cliché, predictable, and unoriginal. You would just not have to be a fan of normal action-thriller movies in general to not be able to predict what'll happen here. The whole thing where he stays just one step ahead of the almighty Forest Whittaker's head detective character, is literally just emulation of The Fugitive at its finest. The whole thing where Liam Neeson is basically God, because he can never die, which I'm not surprised at, is at an all-time high on here that just looks plain silly. I swear a bad guy can't not miss, then the fight scene at the end just proves it. The biggest, baddest, boss-ass bad guy, who's comically, and rightfully so, in his briefs during the scene, misses every time with a machine gun. Also hard to take him seriously since he looks so much like Jim Carey's character from Dumb and Dumber, which has probably been said before many times here in the review section.
As for the acting... not too bad. Not too bad at all. Everyone who acted in this movie, this... utter disgrace to all the other Taken movies, could've had better roles than this in anything else. I'd bet my ass this was all for the money, which I can totally see. I found Forest Whitaker's character to be corny at its finest; he talks the same in every movie, and sometimes it works out, sometimes it bombs. Him as a head detective? Hiroshima.
The script... I don't even wanna get into that. Obviously, the people who wrote the script just decided to stick to everything concrete that happens in an action movie. "Fuck being abstract. Let's just follow the predictable path and go from there."
Seriously, save your money. Cherish the other Taken movies as if they were diamonds, because this one parodies the seriousness the other two tried to provide so well. Liam Neeson's character fell off, and naturally so, on this low-budget bullshit that I honestly wish was never made, and I was never made to go see.
Dads (2013)
I Like it...
This is the only actual sitcom that made me laugh out loud. To me, personally, I'm glad Seth MacFarlane made this show. One of those dumb reviews said that there is room for improvement, and I totally agree. Giovanni Ribisi and Seth Green have really stepped it up, by the way, because by the fifth episode (Oldfinger), I was cracking up. And I love the maid; she's like a Consuela that appears in every episode. This and the Big Bang Theory are my favorite sitcom shows that feature a overly used laugh track (that is the only thing that annoys me), and I hope to see many more seasons of Dads in the future. Maybe an episode where Seth MacFarlane guest stars will crank up some views. All I really know is that people love Seth MacFarlane.