This reboot of a monster franchise could have been creepy or campy, but it settles for the dreary action-blockbuster template.
Much of the action unfolds in Grey Town, a dreary locale which extends infinitely into time and space, inhabited by bored ghosts.
Final Score: United States 0, France 1 The ratings (on a scale of 1, diabolical; to 10, world class): Starters Tim Howard Howardd had little to do in a dreary first half for both teams, but France jolted into action after the break and Howard was soon forced into action.
Let's hope all this action leaves less time for the endlessly dreary saga of Lady Mary's suitors.
Once decrepit and dreary, this complex now buzzes with activity.
Confronted with a set of interesting fatalities to liven up her dreary new home, the not-quite-employed Jimm springs into action.
What should have been a triumphant finale to a franchise that redefined action movies turned out to be a long, dreary trudge toward a waterlogged fistfight.
And once the action, such as it is, switched over to the dreary sausage-making of policy debate, political addicts, me included, suffered withdrawal pangs.
For despite Ms. Stillman's honorable, lucid distillation of the novel's action, the play felt like a telenovela twice translated, only with drearier clothing.
That more or less describes "Taken," as well as innumerable action flicks from Hollywood to Hong Kong, of course, though this digitally dreary-looking movie also gleefully trades on the specter of American vigilante justice.
