The last hour was good and had some suspense...

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2005)

the problem was not much happens in the first hour. This is definitely a movie that is too long and needed to be edited to 105 minutes. The first hour basically shows Creasy who at first is cold toward Pita learn to care for her and be her friend. He takes over a parenting role when her parents are absent. This should have only taken 30 minutes to show. Finally, we get some action when Pita is kidnapped. Although, I still don't buy the fact that Creasy still lives after being shot in the chest a couple of times.
After recovering, Creasy is on a mission to kill all who was involved in Pita's kidnapping and death. He uses a license tag number to begin the hunt and gets help from a reporter who also wants to expose the corruptness of the police. He tracks down those who were involved and torchers and kills them. Some of the torcher scenes, while not shown, still make you cringe because it looks like it would really hurt.
Then the twist, which I guessed before hand, is that Pita's father arranged the kidnapping in order to steal some of the ransom money. Creasy figures this out and the father does what he must since he thinks he killed his daughter. After tracking down the family of the Voice (the mastermind behind the kidnappings), Creasy learns that Pita is still alive and the Voice is willing to trade Pita for his brother and Creasy's life. And to make it seem not so sad and it was so Hollywood, Creasy is shot before hand and appears to be dying from blood loss. So, when he turns himself over to the kidnappers after they let Pita go, it makes it seem not so sad since the "hero" was going to die any way. I wonder if that is what really happened in real life.
FINAL VERDICT: Once the action started, it got interesting. Dezel was good as usual, so if you like him or if a movie about kidnapping interests you, then I recommend it.