Don't bother

Rating: 1/10 (9 December 2010)

Someday someone will have to explain to me why an actor who starred in, and indeed received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in, one of the greatest movies ever made, a move that will be watched as long as movies are watched, Schindler's List, would waste his time and very real talents appearing in this embarrassing collection of clichés and cheap thrills. Someday someone will have to explain that to me.
This has it all, folks. All the classic clichés. Young women who are brutally tortured, physically and mentally, because they (thought about being) bad girls. Different-looking Eastern Europeans who exemplify the most degraded possible aspects of (sub)human nature. (That has a long pedigree; think "M".) French police officers who are corrupt to the core. Endless scenes of violence and gun-play in which the hero is never hurt even against incredible odds but all his opponents get wasted. (Eastern Europeans can't shoot straight, etc.). Lots of peek-a-boo scenes of young women being prostituted in the most vile fashion. (Not, of course, that any are not vile.) This movie has it all, and used it all to play to the worst in anyone. By the end - if you make it to the end - you will want to take several showers.
So then, tell me: WHY would Liam Neeson appear in this? Why?