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nearly borders on farce, and i'm glad for it (spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by tyrexden
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Liam Neeson's TAKEN movies take themselves so seriously. I truly don't even enjoy them. They're too grim. Not fun. This movie, on the other hand, has a great balance of believability, yet moments of fun and farce.

I really appreciated how they avoided the cliche of kidnapping the daughter or the wife, especially at the party at the end. We have seen that so many times. It would've done nothing to add to the movie... Much more fun that they didn't even really know what was going on the whole time.

Parts of the movie were ridiculous, like the Amber Heard character, in general, but they were presented in a serious manner. Really enjoyable flick. There were no moments of staleness.

[–] Beauq81 11 years ago

I agree with you. This is a movie that wasn't meant to be taken as anything more than plain, extremely simple fun.

Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 11 years ago

I said the same thing, but in a negative way. It had stupid action and dialogue (do you even have a line you wont cross?!), but it took itself serious for some reason. Its like it was written as a shoot em up type action movie spoof, but when the director got a hold of it he honestly thought it was a straightforward action flick.

Just a terrible movie because of that reason too. It could have been over the top fun, instead they went for real family drama and took themselves way too serious...

[–] seans_life 11 years ago

took themselves way too serious

What movie were you watching TheBeardedWonder? There was more than enough light hearted stuff in this film while still having great action and sending a message to people about maybe thinking about what is really important and not letting it get away before your life is over. It wasn't way too serious at all. It was done the right way. The pace of the film was just fine.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 11 years ago

What movie were you watching TheBeardedWonder?

Probably the same one these critics were watching:

It only comes alive when the star briefly shows the casual looseness that once was his calling card.

Besson provided the story and co-wrote the screenplay for a film directed by McG, who does his usual McGhastly job with action and is McGruesome when it comes to comedy.

The result is a convoluted mess that has one good twist and two good car chases. But it's hardly enough to bring this spy flick in from the cold.

Although it's not impossible to mix humor and violence, as “Midnight Run” proves, it isn't easy - as 3 Days to Kill proves.

McG may strip down his approach and serve up a variety of slick, well-paced shoot-outs and car chases, but his technical skill can't quite overcome the story's lazy sense of humor

Honestly I didn't even need to dig into any reviews to find these, that took all of 60 seconds. I just went to imdb's critic page for this movie (which only gives you a couple sentences of each review), and I still found a bunch of blurbs that mention the lame comedy or uneven tone...

"What? Do you wanna just sit around and be wrong?" - Liz Lemon

[–] bozo_500 (13388) 4 years ago

It was like a weird send up/farce of the Taken movies as well as Costners back catalogue (see trivia), True Lies and maybe the Bourne films