Starts with a great cast, Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind), Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, Zorro), Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace), Kyle Chandler (Super 8, Friday Night Lights) and a great director Allen Hughes, of the Hughes Brothers, I think this is his first solo film. The story starts with Crowe the mayor hiring ex-cop down and out private I Wahlberg to see if his wife Zeta-Jones is having an affair, of course she is, and there's murder and a reelection and some more twists and turns.
Taken was a huge hit, and a very good movie, so they made taken 2 and it wasn't as good, so I didn't have high hopes for 3, but yeah, it's surprisingly better than 2. If you liked the first one, you can skip the second, you won't miss much. This movie won't be seen by as many people as the first two, but no reason why not. Liam Neeson and Forest Whitaker are both worth watching.
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the ex-CIA operative with a very particular set of skills, skills he has acquired over a very long career. If you don't know that, go back and watch Taken first, you might want to stop there. It's not the same movie remade, not exactly, this time the kidnapper's father wants revenge so he kidnaps Mills and his wife, Famke Janssen.
It's got a good cast, Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou (Rob Corddry) are three friends that go to a mountain resort where they were wild and crazy back in the day, taking along Adam's nephew, Jacob, played Clark Duke. Chevy Chase has a small role, he fixes the hot tub, which of course turns in to a time machine and takes them back to 1986.
You either like the Cohen brothers' brand of dark humor or not, you should know if this movie is for you or not. It has a funny interesting plot, but it's much more about Jeff Bridges character, who's the dude, not the Big Lebowski.
It's another Neil Blomcamp the District 9 guy, movie and I was expecting more people vs the corporations. In the future we have robo cops, Chappie gets stolen and reprogrammed so he can think and feel for himself. So you know Chappie is going to be the most human of them all.
Seems like there was a Twilight Zone episode along these lines. Three friends, including the Flash's Danielle Panabaker discover their neighbor is dead and he had a camera pointed at their window that takes pictures of the future. What could possibly go wrong with that?