Did he really need to drug his own daughter
To get her to meet him in the bathroom? Couldn't he just have left her a note instead?
It would have made more sense, but then he wouldn't have gotten to poison his own pregnant daughter? Apparently she is also too stupid to destroy the note he left and just left it to be found.
sharejust bad writing
shareIt definitely carried a weird, malevolent undertone for me, and then the attempt to rationalize torture after the water-boarding scene was laughably obvious. Would be very interested to know who was behind this film given it's rather cynical view of people.
shareAll the Taken films have had a cynical view of people, it's part of their odd charm. I did think this one was very silly though - Bryan Mills killed loads of people and wrecked LA and walked away. His daughter still seems like a complete idiot because they've got Maggie Grace playing a character who's ten years younger than she actually is.
I.e. you can sorta kinda accept it when he murders dozens of mafia scumbags in a foreign country that the US and foreign government might decide to cover it up even though when you think about it it is absolutely ridiculous - wouldn't people leak what was going on to journalists?
And in this one I thought at the end the cops he'd humiliated and outmanoeuvred would prosecute him for one of his many crimes (kidnapping, assaulting a police officer, letting off explosives, blowing up a building). But they all just look at him as if he is The Man and it's all forgiven.