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JUNE 2015 JB Hi-Fi
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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
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
The final chapter.
TAKEN 3
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
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.
The Wachowskis reloaded.
JUPITER ASCENDING
DVD & BD
Theatrical Cut & Extended Cut
BD ONLY
Deleted Scene
Sam’s Bunker aka The Rabbit Hole
Taken to L.A.
A Taken Legacy
Gallery
Non-Stop
EXTRAS
FURTHER VIEWING
Release Date: 03/06/15
Format:
DVD & BD
Jupiter Jones: Destiny Is
Within Us
Jupiter Ascending: Genetically
Spliced
BD ONLY
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)
The Fifth Element
EXTRAS
FURTHER VIEWING
Release Date: 24/06/15
Format: TOP
HITS
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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?
DID YOU KNOW...
Natalie Portman was originally
cast as Jupiter Jones, but
dropped out.
DID YOU KNOW...