Budget: $40 million Box Office: $15.9 million (39.75%) Sean Penn tries to create his own Taken franchise with this woefully bad vanity project which, yes, he co-wrote, so you know from the outset it's going to be politically hamfisted. Though Penn got in incredible shape for the role, the film surprisingly doles out little action but instead indulges in a number of terrible melodramatic subplots, the most egregious being a three-way romance. The likes of Ray Winstone and Idris Elba are left to do almost nothing in the supporting cast, and it's only the presence of Javier Bardem, who clearly knows he's in a bad movie and just has some fun with it, that temporarily perks things up. It's a film that fails at its dual intent: it doesn't have a particularly inspiring message, and it's not entertaining as an action flick either, so what, then, was the point of it all, other than to massage Penn's ego?