![]() In the office of his buddy, FBI Director Gabriel Robinson ( Aidan Quinn, channeling Martin Sheen’s Josiah Bartlet Gone Bad) tells Travis-who is also his best friend, of course-“I appreciate you for making it happen.”īut the thing Travis most wants to make happen at this late stage in life is quality time with his granddaughter, at which is actual daughter balks. He achieves this through legerdemain and propane and a flare. We first see him speeding to a DC-adjacent redneck-white-supremacist conclave to rescue an in-too-deep operative. Neeson plays Travis Block (writer Nick May musta read a screenwriting manual stating that giving your violent hero Travis Bickle’s initials is a good luck charm of sorts) an undercover even by undercover standards FBI guy who specializes in getting regular undercover agents out of jams. It casts a pall over the rest of the movie, which wouldn’t have much going for it anyway even without this alpha-male posturing. One ought not have to invoke former Congresswoman Gabbie Giffords to argue why this kind of “torn from the headlines” (or whatever it is) scenario opportunism is gross. Whose driver shares a meaningful glance with the town car driver. ![]() But later that night after the rally, a shady town car driver fakes a jammed passenger-side door, obliging Sofia to exit the car driver’s side, and on the street she’s efficiently plowed down by an SUV. In the crowd is a wide-eyed guy fixing his baby blues on her adoringly, apparently her boyfriend, played by Taylor John Smith (in this scene and others looking more like a digital animation than a live person for some reason). (The actor playing her is Mal Jarnson.) Given the talk she’s talking here, she’s obviously based on Rep. They carry signs bearing her name, Sofia Flores. The movie opens with a scene of a young, charismatic brunette female roiling the working class at a D.C. Mark Williams' “Blacklight,” alas, is not among them. Some of the variants of his popular “ Taken” movies (the last one, “ Taken 3,” was all the way back in 2014, how times flies) have been reasonably clever and even cinematically worthwhile on a surprising level (see for instance 2019’s “ Cold Pursuit”).
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