Unintentionally Hilarious

Rating: 2/10 (18 March 2014)

I doubt the producers and director set out to create such a stinker of a film, but that's exactly what they did. There are many scenes in this movie that are just laughable. From close calls, to easily escapable rooms, to bad guys who can't shoot better than my 3 year old, to a daughter who's failed her driving test 3 times but magically gains the ability to drive a foreign car with a stick shift with blinding speed through the narrow streets of Istanbul. It goes on and on.
But what really put this film into the toilet were scenes that I call "convenient overlooks". For example, bad guys are after the daughter who is hiding in a closet. Bad guys check one closet door, then start to sloooowwwly open the other door, but then get distracted and stop. Whew that was close! Another: Bad guys use a breakable zip tie to tie Neeson's wrists together, they ever heard of handcuffs? Another: Bad guys leave Neeson alone in a room so he has time to talk to his daughter via a hidden cell phone and plan his escape. Another: Daughter lobs grenades off of a rooftop to the streets below to locate her father, gee I hope no innocent citizens were pulverized!
Oh boy.