Bryan is back again due to popular demand, and I don't blame him. I'd be want to come back too if I was taken away so often. This time we are in Los Angeles, and Bryan seems to be pretty content, except for maybe with how fast Kim is growing up. He's just going about with his day, doing what ever it is he does, air marshalling or something, when suddenly his ex-wife turns up dead. He is suspected, and the rest of the film is just Bryan trying to both clean his name and keep his daughter safe.
People always note with franchises like this how bad luck the main characters tend to have, but that's actually one of the more believable things about this series. Bryan has been involved with a lot of bad people, and it's really not surprising that some of those bad people will try to get back at him. I just wish they'd be a bit more original, and a bit more entertaining while they did. This film is just a completely average action film, there's not particularly fun or interesting going on that you haven't already seen a thousand times over in better films. The acting is shoddy, the music is shoddy, the sound mixing is shoddy, the directing is shoddy, the colour grading is shoddy, there is very little about this film that stands out. The one thing I really liked, was the title sequence, but that was it. After that I was left waiting for the film to come to its conclusion, and that's not something you want from a film that's not even two hours long. They try to keep an air of mystique and wonder, but we all know from the beginning what is going on. They try to hide it, but we know, there are no real shocks. Not that there has to be, but you can tell they intend for there to be some degree of shock.
Overall this film is just borderline okay. It may be worth one watch, just to see Liam Neeson kick some ass, but nothing more than that. You'll find yourself having a better evening by rewatching the first or second film instead of seeing this.
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