Over rated mediocre action movie

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2009)

This movie is about a father who used to be some kind of agent for the U.S government. He's retired and settled down somewhere near where his daughter is, so that he can make up for the 'lost time' with his daughter while he was still working for the government. Almost immediately through the film, his daughter got kidnapped.
Now this is were the movie captured the audiences with emotions, causing massive over rating of this movie. Father and daughter relationship then daughter got kidnapped. That is the only emotional hook this movie can offer. Another strength of this movie is the action although there's too many cliché moves around it. Reminds me of Steven Seagal. Compare this movie to Bourne, this movie is like a rat and Bourne is a horse.
Apart from all those strengths, the movie has some major weaknesses. Maggie Grace can't act. The script was badly written. The character building was too brief. If it wasn't for the fact that Kim is the daughter of Bryan Mills, I wouldn't care if she got kidnapped. Like how I didn't care that Amanda got kidnapped or raped too because who the is she? She just appeared for a few minutes and got kidnapped. That is why character building is important, which this movie is lacking.