2014 · thriller · action
Taken 3
Directed by Olivier Megaton1h 49m2014
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.
Our read: Taken 3 (2014) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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