Decent action

Rating: 6/10 (16 October 2012)

Constantinople in Turkey.....now Istanbul.....at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.....where the civilized west meets the barbaric east.....
And what happens when a man from the civilized west takes the danger of venturing into the barbaric east ?? He's TAKEN....or rather kidnapped by men taking revenge for the well deserved justice he meted out to one of them who was a rapist.....
The civilized man taking the risky venture is Liam Neeson.....and the barbarians who are out to seek bloody revenge are Albanian muslims.....
Yeah , its nice to see Islam in the movies....but hey , only in the movies.....all stories of mayhem and murder and loot and destruction and kalashnikovs and massacre.....
And when these savages come to know Liam has come to Istanbul with his exwife and daughter they jump at the opportunity like a dog to a bone.....
......And they plan to kill his wife by cutting her up piece by piece and sell his daughter to a whorehouse to be raped again and again by lust crazed men.....
Yeah , the men Liam is up against have no honour nor dignity nor respect for rights of women..... All that they see is their ancient call for restoring their honour---by taking an eye for an eye.....
But what they don't know is that Liam is too formidable an enemy.....a man who has survived a hundred battles and has an incorrigible taste for winning this one.... And his daughter is not a wimp either....she's ready to help her dad in every situation.....
And thus---when two powerful teams meet for confrontation there is bound to be hell raising action..... .....And hell raising action is what I love.....all bullets flying and grenades exploding and jaws getting crunched and cars getting smashed.....all in the shadow of the Aya Sophia mosque which was once Saint Sophia church the largest church in Christiandom.....and also all under the shadow of the flag of Turkey---a republic seemingly powerless to stop all the carnage.....
So whose gonna triumph in the end ?? The bloodthirsty barbarians or the civilized ones ?? The people who look at other people's daughters with an evil eye or people whose mundane dreams include their daughters passing a simple car driving test ??
Go and watch the movie for that....I wasn't disappointed by the experience....
Verdict---Good action .