Twentieth Century Fox reportedly paid Liam Neeson $20 million for Taken 3, so there’s a lot of pressure on the 62-year-old Hollywood veteran to use his "particular set of skills" to do what he does best: Namely, cracking skulls and packing audiences into the theater.
Now that the film’s first trailer has been released, we can safely say Neeson is still very capable of performing at least one of those feats.
Yes, Taken 3 (or Tak3n, if you prefer, which you shouldn’t) features more things being taken followed by Neeson taking them back.
You may have thought this movie already came out, but that was actually a A Walk Among the Tombstones, another film in which Neeson growls for 90 minutes straight and kicks seven kinds of ass.
If it seems like he’s being typecast these days, remember that Neeson also starred in Seth McFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West over the summer.
Given that film’s dismal box office and critical reception, it’s not hard to see why Neeson rushed right back to the sort of role that made him famous.
So does the trailer for Taken 3 look an awful lot like the trailer for Taken 2? Yes. Is that a problem? Not at all. And even if it was, we certainly wouldn’t say so to Liam’s face.
