What you may need to know:
1. Mob hitman Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) takes on his brutal former boss (Ed Harris) to protect his estranged son (Joel Kinnaman) and his family.
2. Neeson’s particular set of skills seem to be inexhaustible.
3. With Taken 3’s performance at the box office last weekend, the big man’s pension fund must be looking pretty healthy at this stage.
4. This is the third collaboration between Neeson and director Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown, Non-Stop). Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
5. Ed Harris people! Next up, Harris will be filling Yul Brynner’s cowboy boots for J.J. Abrams in HBO’s Westworld.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Liam’s up all night to Get Lucky.
Release Date: 1st May 2015.
Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie




I guess some people just throw themselves into their work to deal with grief.
That looks fab — can’t wait! And the ‘Danny Boy’ in the background reminds me of Miller’s Crossing: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3m5l8_you-can-t-hit-albert-finney_shortfilms
luks fierce intensio so it does
I like Joel Kinnaman. He had a certain cool about him in The Killing (US) that I thought was damned brilliant.
I want to see more of that man on the big screen.
I just finished season 2 last night after only starting it last thursday it is pretty damn good. But the robocop he did was shite.
Jaysus, that was desperate :)
To be fair – this is just a trailer. “Taken” was released straight to DVD and now it’s a franchise?
Ok, i will start by saying i am a big fan of b-movies and action movies so this should be an easy sell for me, but its not. How does Jaume Collet-Serra keep getting work? His movies are consistently terrible while having excellent casts. The text font is so bad you should not see this movie let alone all the shots over coloured for some sort of symbolism is ridiculous. Even Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Common and the wonderful Vincent D’Onofrio can’t save this pile of s**t from flopping. I’d expect a lot more from the writer of Out of the Furnace.
I thought Frankie Flannery died at the end of State of Grace.
Taken the train?
Danny Boy? Check
Neon Shamrock? Check
Maudlin sentimentality between old violent buddies turned enemies? Check
There may be whiskey.
Can’t wait.