Though this isn’t an exact science as the Mortal Kombat sequel actually suffered from embracing the source material more! On the other hand, when you seem to take a silly source material seriously, you end up with a movie with no unique vision and a pain to sit through.

I know people will disagree with me, but when the creative forces decide to embrace the inherent silliness of the medium, we end up with terrible but enjoyable films. See there’s a certain charm and insanity to making video game movies. Much like the transition from Street Fighter: The Movie to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, this prequel loses a lot of charm that makes the original enjoyable. I enjoyed it so much that I had the slightest interest in the sequel being at least half as entertaining. That hasn’t prevented me from finding some element of entertainment in a handful of them including the original live-action Tekken movie. Video games have notoriously been a terrible source for movies to mine thus far. Bored and want to spend time with Liam?You could do worse.Let’s put all the cards on the table. High expectations, you will not be happy. It is much better than Taken 2 but then again so is footage of your dog's birthday party. Not really a Taken movie, more of what you would expect if they wanted to do a TV series on the Neeson character and they started with a long pilot. Hollywood never ever leaves money on the table.

It was great and showed the world he was still an A-list actor. To atone for Taken 2, Neeson did the Tombstone flic. If you thought it was in the same class as Taken 1, you failed the test. Taken 2 was not so much a film as an IQ test. Neeson was not getting any younger and when offered Taken 2, he took it. It was actually a very well made product and even with all the attention, still under-rated. It turned Neeson, a very competent actor, into filmdom's oldest and newest action hero. (Quoting from my IMDb reviews of the first two) Taken 1 was one of those unexpected surprises that keeps the wheels in Tinseltown turning.

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