Poor excuse for an action film

Rating: 3/10 (12 September 2010)

I have just spent 93 minutes watching the most one dimensional film I have seen for many years. Thank God I didn't actually pay to see it. It is so full of cliché as to make me wonder whether or not it had been written by a computer program. I can only imagine that Liam Neeson needed the money.
Polanski's Frantic has a similar plot (and location) and is a far superior product (whatever you think of the man's morals).
Noble estranged father, rich stepfather, spoiled daughter, corrupt French policeman, Albanian gangsters, Saudi Mr Big, car chases, gun battles ... they are all in there together with the revelation that Charles de Gaulle Airport is the world centre for white slaving.
Having said that, with its cardboard characters and puerile plot, this subBond action fest reminded me of the Saturday morning serials when I was a child. Every episode ended with a certain death cliffhanger, always resolved in about 30 seconds with an action sequence from which the hero emerged without a hair out of place.