Taken: A Statement of Purpose

For scheduling purposes, I need a break of three films. So, what trilogy should I do?

Well, a lot of the more interesting ones I’ve found are too tied to individual filmmakers, so I settled on Taken.

Culturally, the trilogy is an interesting artifact. The first movie was a complete fluke driven by an actor deciding to do something different and solid action chops on the part of the director to create a very simple man-on-a-mission adventure.

And it continued for two sequels.

It’s...