Retired special ops chap Bryan Mills seems to attract the sort of trouble which his special set of skills is ideally placed to deal with. And so here we go again....
If you take this on its own merits, it is a tolerable action thriller, albeit peppered with annoyances – thick-headed police, action sequences filmed with extreme close-ups edited extremely badly, ex-wife's current husband recast from Xander Berkeley (first film) to Dougray Scott here (which is tantamount to painting "villain" on his forehead), and – like episode 2 – an absence of the grim mercilessness in Liam Neeson's Bryan Mills, which was the thing which made the original so riveting.
So if you loved the first one and were unimpressed by the second one, best not bother with this one.
Oh, and it all takes place in LA – not very European at all.
If you take this on its own merits, it is a tolerable action thriller, albeit peppered with annoyances – thick-headed police, action sequences filmed with extreme close-ups edited extremely badly, ex-wife's current husband recast from Xander Berkeley (first film) to Dougray Scott here (which is tantamount to painting "villain" on his forehead), and – like episode 2 – an absence of the grim mercilessness in Liam Neeson's Bryan Mills, which was the thing which made the original so riveting.
So if you loved the first one and were unimpressed by the second one, best not bother with this one.
Oh, and it all takes place in LA – not very European at all.