This was a bad movie. There is nothing unusual about a bad movie, they happen all the time, what i found very unusual was that Michael Mann directed a movie this bad. The story was all over the place, the action and technical explanations made very little sense and were hard to follow. Most of the plot was ridiculous and the scenes moved all over the place, very often disconnected to the previous scene or making no sense at all. On a number of levels this was quite a bad movie. Considering Micheal Mann directed and wrote the movie “HEAT” which came out 20 years ago I was quite surprised that this movie was as bad as it was.

Avoid this movie at all costs. See American Sniper this weekend or Selma, which are much better uses of your time.

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This was a good movie in that it showed an important moment in history that perhaps many people never fully understood or know about. This movie depicts man’s humanity to man and the inhumanity doled out to black people in the 60’s, not even allowing them to vote in the South even though they had the legal right to vote was an outrage. The acting in this movie was very good, especially the acting of the actor who played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There are a few small scenes with Oprah Winfrey but she hardly had any speaking lines in the whole movie.

The downside of this movie is that it was very slow at times and at times the story did skip around too much. Overall this movie was good, not great and will definitely receive an Academy Award nomination.

I do recommend this movie.

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What a shame. This is another example of another great movie franchise that was ruined by stupidity and greed. Due to the guaranteed money that the producers know will be coming in for this movie, like they normally do, they forgot to write any kind of a decent script.

This movie from the beginning to the end was very disappointing. The plot, many of the scenes and the overall story made no sense. It was one of those movies where at the end of the movie they had to explain all the things that were impossible to know while watching the movie, because what happened and the conclusion of the movie was so absurd and overly complicated. I am so sick of movies that could be great that fail to do one basic thing – write a decent story! Just come up with a good solid story that is a worthy conclusion to a movie franchise that should have ended in a great way.

For this movie, even the action and fight scenes were very disappointing as the first movie had great action scenes, the second was just OK, but this one was very average. I also didn’t like the fact that they killed his x-wife in this movie and its not explained that his x-wife is either married to the husband we saw in the first Taken movie or got divorced and then married another rich man. What was great about the first Taken was the father daughter relationship and what he went through to save her life. Its a good thing this franchise is now done for good because they just plain killed it for good with this very bad 3rd installment.

What a ridiculous movie, which I could never recommend. This is a shame and happens more often than not for most great Hollywood movie franchises.

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