Hell and Back (TV)

Rating: 7/10 (16 May 2009)

Life can be mysterious: As I left Paris for a visit to my family, I read during the trip the Council of Europe (CoE) issue about the new convention against human trafficking (GRETA). In the evening, I picked the Sin City story called "Hell and Back" and I was surprised to see that it was about the same criminal activity. Today, as I got up for breakfast, I turn on the satellite mosaic and among all the screens, I noticed someone looking like Famke Jansen. I picked the channel and it was indeed her! With Liam Neeson her ex-husband, they said farewell to their daughter leaving for  Paris !
As American movies about France are my weakness, I just went on watching. As the daughter was abducted, I was indeed taken! I couldn't switch it off until I know her final fate. Then, a great thriller started with an excellent Liam! Sure, he can inspire some security and courage! It's "funny" to notice how his character and Frank Miller's Wallace are close: the two are hard-boiled, terribly lethal and for achieving their rescue, discover a modern criminality! As CoE states, this activity is hard to notice, makes a lot of money, which explains it has become the great deal of criminals today! It was a great eyes-opener for me all the more than the action happens in my city: for example, the car chase in which he drives full speed against the traffic is the same place when I got stuck with my bike and unable to cross the road with too many cars!
So if the movie was a good moment, the only problem was maybe his denial! It's great to have a Superman as father but for all the people who haven't one, the story would be different! For example, Liam is too focused about his daughter that it isn't clear if he took the opportunity to save the other girls by the way! Finally, it's a pity this movie is just action or adrenalin and forgets the real tragedy: it would have been great in the closing credits to have lines about the number of cases of unresolved disappearances, just to have a definitive picture about this terrible drama!