TAKEN 2014

Taken 3 (sometimes stylized as Tak3n) is a 2014 English-language French action-thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It is the third and final installment in the Taken trilogy. A co-production between France, Spain and the United States, the film stars Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen.

The film was released in Germany in late 2014, and then in the United States on 9 January 2015 by 20th Century Fox and in France on 21 January 2015 by EuropaCorp Distribution. It grossed $326 million worldwide, but received generally unfavorable reviews from critics.

𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐋𝐎𝐀𝐃

𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐋𝐎𝐀𝐃

Former CIA officer Bryan Mills visits his daughter, Kim, to deliver an early birthday gift. After an awkward visit, he invites his former wife, Lenore, to dinner. Although she declines, she later shows up at his apartment and tells him about her marital problems, but says she wants to make it work. Later, her husband, Stuart, tells Bryan never to see his wife again. Stuart secretly uses Bryan s phone to arrange a meeting with Lenore, making it appear that Bryan sent and then deleted the message. Lenore is kidnapped when she arrives for the bogus meeting.

The next morning, Bryan receives a text from Lenore asking to meet for breakfast. When Bryan returns home, he discovers Lenore s body. LAPD units immediately appear to arrest him, but Bryan escapes. Meanwhile, Inspector Frank Dotzler reviews Bryan s background.

Bryan retreats to a safe house equipped with weapons and surveillance electronics. He retraces Lenore s final movements to a gas station and obtains the surveillance footage showing her being abducted by men with distinctive hand tattoos. LAPD detectives arrive to arrest him, but Bryan hijacks the police cruiser and downloads phone records from an LAPD database onto a thumb drive. He contacts Kim at Lenore s funeral via a camera hidden in his friend Sam s suit, and instructs her to maintain her "very predictable schedule." Bryan arranges to meet with her later and removes a surveillance bug, which Dotzler unknowingly planted on her. Kim tells Bryan that she is pregnant, and that Stuart is acting scared and has hired bodyguards.

Bryan chases Stuart s car, but a pursuing SUV ambushes him, forcing his car over a cliff. Bryan survives, hijacks another car, and follows the attackers to a roadside liquor store. Bryan kills the men, then abducts and interrogates Stuart using waterboarding, who confesses that his former business partner and ex-Spetsnaz operative, Oleg Malankov, murdered Lenore because Stuart owes him money. He exposed Bryan s identity to Malankov out of jealousy.

With assistance from his old colleagues and a nervous Stuart, Bryan gains entry to Malankov s heavily secured penthouse. After killing the guards, a furious gun battle, and a brutal fight, a mortally-wounded Malankov reveals that Stuart planned Lenore s murder and framed Bryan as part of a business deal to collect a $12,000,000 life insurance policy. Malankov adds that when Stuart failed to kill Bryan, he used Bryan to try and kill Malankov to keep the insurance money.

Meanwhile, Stuart abducts Kim, intending to flee with the money. Under police pursuit, Bryan arrives at the airport in Malankov s Porsche as Stuart s private plane is preparing for takeoff. After destroying the landing gear with the car, Bryan overpowers Stuart. Kim s pleas prevent Bryan from killing Stuart, but he warns him to expect retribution if he escapes justice or receives a reduced prison sentence. Dotzler and the LAPD arrive and arrest Stuart while Bryan is cleared.

In the aftermath, Kim tells Bryan she wants to name her baby after her mother if it s a girl.