The Taken series of films get progressively worse but at least they have a certain panache on their side. The violence is gratuitous but stylish and the Liam Neeson character has a good strap-line what with his very particular set of skills. But don't worry I'm not going to trouble you with an evaluation of Taken - I've probably done that somewhere else. No, I must alert you to something altogether worse. Massively, egregiously, painfully worse. Ladies and gentlemen I give you Blacklight.
Somebody thought Neeson was worth another outing as gun-toting avenger notwithstanding that we are edging close to his seventieth birthday. They even give him another nice line ('You're going to need more men') but that line is deployed far more tellingly in the trailer than in the film itself. I don't blame Neeson - take the money and run mate. Bu, oh, that script. It's so full of holes it's indecent. And as for its obvious belief that it is somehow going to be the action genre's answer to
All the President's Men, well grow up you idiots. This is a scandalous waste of time and effort. I would however admit that it is worth watching for a laugh. Not as bad as
The Jackal but pretty bloody bad all the same. 31/100.
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