Istambul not Constaninople

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2014)

***SPOLIERS*** It's at the funeral in Albania of his beloved #1 son Markos and fellow members of his notorious white slavery racket that his braved pop Murad, Rade Serbedzija, swore bloody revenge to the person responsible for their untimely death. Markos and his gang according to Murad were just doing their job to make a dishonest living in kidnapping and pimping young girls and this crazed mad man US Government Agent Bryan Mills, Liam Neeson, put an end to their lives for doing it.Now sending out this scuzzy gang of assassins Murad plans to do to Millis as well as his wife Lenny, Frankie Janssen, and especially his 17 year old daughter Kim, Maggie Grace, the very worst he can think of.It's
in Istanbul not Constantinople Turkey where Mills and his family are on vacation where all the actions in the movie takes place. Despite Murad's blood lust in killing Mills and his wife and daughter he and his greasy hand or nose picked gang of assassins don't quite seem to have their heart in it.In being their target for assassination they foolishly let them go or escaper at every opportunity. Even Mills who's captured and tortured by the group is never really in danger of being killed or murdered in just how gingerly and with extreme care they handle him as well as wife Lenny & daughter Kim. Mills for his part has no trouble dispatching the bad guys Steven Seagal style where they never are even allowed to lay a glove or hand on him in the many fights scenes he has with them in the movie. He deflects their punches as if he were a magnet deflecting metal objects!
***SPOILERS*** The very predictable ending has Mills after dispatching the entire gang of Albanians give the helpless Maude a chance to let bygones be bygones and stop all this bloodshed once in for all. By now at least Mills has grown sick and tired of his role of a US Government super hero and wants to go back to a much normal and peaceful lifestyle. It's just too bad that Murad doesn't take the hint and ends up paying the ultimate price for it.