STACK #128 Jun 2016

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The final chapter. TAKEN 3

Release Date: 03/06/15 Format:

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Deleted Scene Sam’s Bunker aka The Rabbit Hole Taken to L.A. A Taken Legacy Gallery

Former CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), the man with the “very particular set of skills”, returns for the third and final film in the phenomenally successful Taken series. Also returning for the franchise swan song is Taken 2 director Olivier Megaton and producer/co-writer Luc

DID YOU KNOW...

Reportedly, Liam Neeson stipulated to the movie’s

producers that he would only do this third installment if “nobody gets taken”. Liam Neeson does all his own fight sequences in the film. Taken 3 has taken over $300 million in global box office. Can this really be the final chapter?

Besson. Taken 3 continues Mills’s seemingly neverending struggle to protect his ever-endangered family, but prepare to be taken elsewhere in this trilogy closer. This time ‘round Mills is fleeing from the authorities, determined to clear his name after being wrongly accused of a murder in LA, whilst at the same time playing guardian to his now pregnant daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). You’ll know exactly what to expect from

a movie whose tagline is “coming out of retirement one last time”. After three Taken films (and a couple of wannabes), Neeson has well and truly cemented his action-hero credentials and knows how to point a pistol – it’s now time for him to return to the kind of solid, dramatic roles he was doing in the ‘90s. • See page 34

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The Wachowskis reloaded. JUPITER ASCENDING

Release Date: 24/06/15 Format:

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Jupiter Jones: Destiny Is Within Us Jupiter Ascending: Genetically Spliced

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Caine Wise: Interplanetary Warrior The Wachowskis: Minds Over Matter Worlds Within Worlds Within Worlds Bullet Time Evolved From Earth to Jupiter (And Everywhere in Between)

More accessible than their recent Cloud Atlas and more enjoyable than those Matrix sequels, the Wachowski siblings’ latest sci-fi epic concerns ordinary Earth girl Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), who discovers she’s a genetic “recurrence” of the powerful matriarch of an intergalactic dynasty, and consequently the

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Natalie Portman was originally cast as Jupiter Jones, but dropped out.

legal heir to their fortune. This of course upsets the eldest son, Balem (a hilarious Eddie Redmayne), who makes it his mission to destroy her. With a genetically engineered dog soldier (Channing Tatum) as her guardian, Jupiter’s ascension proves to be quite a convoluted affair. This is one of those big, dazzling, FX-laden and overly ambitious science

fiction films whose erratic tone alternates between serious and screwball – often in the same scene. And like the similarly bonkers The Fifth Element and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension , the Wachowski’s space opera is destined to attract its own cult following. Watch it a second time and it actually does make sense. Kind of.

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The Fifth Element

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