Drivel

Rating: 1/10 (27 September 2008)

The really scary thing is the number of people giving this drivel 8,9 and 10 stars.
Can't they see the plot holes, the insulting stereotypes, the total predictability of a weak storyline.
Turn the story round - you're an American, what do you think about this; a couple of French girls go to Disneyland but get kidnapped by hoodlums. One of their Fathers flies over, finds a guy who met the girls at the crowded LAX airport, beats him up on the spot, guy gets away, father steals a car, chases the guy, causes freeway mayhem - god knows how many innocent Americans injured and the guy gets killed by a truck. What would American Police do?
The French father kills a few more people - shoots at least one in the back, causes an innocent American teenager to get shot in the crossfire, deliberately shoots an entirely innocent American policeman's wife with 1st grade kids awake in the bedroom - don't worry, "it's only a flesh wound". Would someone call the police? What would your police do? 'Rescue' a drugged kidnapped teenage girl but don't take her to hospital - take her to a hotel room, put her in bed, perform medical procedures on her and interrogate her when she wakes. What should your police do? Finds is daughter, totally ignores the other kidnapped girls including his daughter's now dead friend, kills everyone associated with the kidnapping and then - calmly exits through American customs and flies home to a hero's welcome in France. Do you feel your country's been violated? Sure you do. Do you think innocent people have been killed by this man's recklessness? Yes you do. Should he be brought to justice? Of course. Would you give THAT film 10 stars? No way, you'd probably firebomb the theatres it's showing in.
But because it's an American father in a foreign country and the hoodlums are Albanian selling innocent American girls to Moslems then it's OK and he's a hero.
Can't you Americans see the attitude of mind that's got you in so much trouble when you invade places like Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq?