Lots of Hollywood clichés also lots of questions

Rating: 2/10 (25 December 2012)

I will not question the lameness of the movie, nor some stupid details like how the daughter who could barely drive an automatic car, can suddenly drive a stick gear like Michael Schumacher.
I can even understand why the movie portrayed Istanbul like a middle-African county where you can explode hand grenades in mid-day and where all women wear scarfs and veils. This could be done intentionally to create a dark environment from where the hero (Liam Neeson) would save his family... (same thing was also done for Paris - to some extend)
However, I cannot explain some extremely illogical details like: - Why they didn't take the girl as soon as she was alone at the hotel, and they waited until her father warns her? - Once Liam Neeson had successfully described his whereabouts to his daughter, why didn't she go to US consulate (Not US embassy because it's in Ankara!) to call for help, instead he called her to help him with guns and grenades? - Why did they crash-drove a taxi into the US consulate and risked being shot at the gates by soldiers (which they miraculously survived) ? Couldn't they walk into the consulate and ask for help? - And finally, when Liam Neeson discovered their nest, why all bad people tried to take his wife and run away rather than just kill her? In fact they were holding her to get to Liam who was now on their doorstep ?
I probably missed bunch of other details, but I think that's enough to prove that the movie needed a little more care than that...