After its release on Jan. 9, “Taken 3” earned $14.7 million on its opening day and $39.2 million during its opening weekend. This film is the third, and hopefully the last, movie of the “Taken” series. Don’t get me wrong, I thought the first two movies were actually interesting; the series has just out-lived its ability to entertain me. Honestly, when is this guy going to run out of people that are constantly trying to kill him or his loved ones?

The movie is similar to the previous films in the “Taken” series. The only thing that is different is how all the butt-kicking action begins. Unlike in the previous movies, Bryan Mills’ (Liam Neeson) ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Janssen) is murdered. This is a sad but nice change in the series because let’s get real, there was no way that Bryan could’ve kept both his ex-wife and his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), safe forever.

Don’t worry though, I know what you’re thinking, and indeed there’s a twist. The people who kill Lenore pin it on Bryan by committing the crime in his apartment while he’s out getting bagels. This event is what ultimately starts the movie off. Now that the cops are after him, Bryan has to make a series of seemingly impossible escapes from the police. Being a suspected murderer, he must hide both from the people trying to kill him and the police. Bryan also has to protect his daughter. Does anyone else see why this entire movie seems like it is super unrealistic and impossible?

Early on in the movie, we learn some interesting things about Kim. She has now grown up and is in college with her boyfriend. Not only that, but she has some news that she struggles to tell her father in the beginning. I don’t want to be too obvious about what it is, but let’s just say that Kim is going to have to do a little more growing up in the next few months of her life. However, everything gets pushed aside when she finds out her mother has been killed. Unlike the helpless young girl in “Taken,” Kim actually plays a pretty significant role in helping her dad prove his innocence.

In addition to the old characters in this film, there are some well-known actors who are new to the series such as Forest Whitaker. He plays the bagel-eating (like no joke, he eats so many bagels; this detail is actually important later on in the movie) police inspector Franck Dotzler who is searching for Bryan while simultaneously trying to figure out whether or not he actually committed the murder. This is probably one of the only characters that was actually interesting because he somehow manages to figure out what really happened to Bryan’s ex-wife, and all while eating a bagel!

Although Neeson is awesome, many of the action scenes were not. I’ve seen all of the “Taken” films, and this movie was really repetitive. He used a lot of the same moves he used in “Taken” and “Taken 2.” Seeing Neeson beat up guys that are way younger than him is always cool, the first time. However, once a person has seen the same old moves three times, it’s time for them to find different moves to use, or for me to find a different movie to watch because there really wasn’t any “action” scene that I haven’t seen in the previous “Taken” films. Pun intended.

If you’re thinking about seeing this movie, don’t expect it to be as good as the two previous films. The movie itself is “eh,” and I definitely think that this needs to be the last one.