Not bad, but get real

Rating: 6/10 (28 February 2009)

This is not an 8.0 movie. The writing was horrible. It was if they just took the first draft of the script and said "eh, good enough, letz shoot it, no?" The first 15 minutes were so sappy/cliché it was frightening. You could even tell that Liam did not believe what he was saying. It almost looked like he was trying not to laugh at how stupid it was.
The Paris part was mostly good, but very unrealistic of course. How are all these people so bad at shooting guns? Seriously, it was worse than most action films in that respect. Machine guns at point blank range miss our hero over and over. Really, really silly.
If someone actually wants to see how eastern European (or Balkan) mobs work, see Eastern Promises. Once you watch that film, you'll find the structure of the Albanians in this film laughable.
But besides those short comings, it was an entertaining action film.
PS - maybe it's just the American in me, but shooting people in the back as they are running away, even bad guys, is not what a hero does, but it happens many times in this film.