Bourne-again Liam!

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2008)

This is trying to be a more emotionally-grounded version of the Bourne Identity movie franchise. Matt Damon's character is fighting for himself, whereas Liam's character is fighting for his daughter. I think this makes it all the more powerful on an emotional level. You feel for Liam.
The initial daughter-father plot line setup is a bit cheesy and painful: 1/Super-happy airhead I-love-you-daddy daughter: Check. 2/Annoying ex wife and uber-rich step-father: Check. 3/Post-divorce Father-Daughter relationship issues: Check.
But it's all excused because it serves the plot well as noted above. Still, they could've cut the airport and singer meetup closing scenes at the end. I was so pumped up I was expecting the daughter's car to be carjacked at the airport!
It's littered with other clichés (Albanians, Arabs, French lover etc...) and completely omits dealing with the other slave girls, but at least it exposes a rather nasty business to the public.
Luc Besson's style is omnipresent and he rightly didn't lay it too heavy on the aggravatingly uber-cool action scenes like in Revolver or Transporter. It's just right.
Memorable scenes: telling his daughter to describe her kidnappers -live-, threatening kidnapper Marco on the phone, shooting the french policeman's wife, construction site brothel, slave auction, getting Marco to read 'Good Luck'.
An adrenaline pumper of a movie I tell you!