Paging Segal and Norris

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2009)

It's okay. It's a VERY '80's-ish action movie, straight outta the ouevre of Segal and Chuck Norris. They cut this one right down to the minimums-characters are presented, spoiled daughter goes w/ airheaded pal to Paris, gets kidnapped by white slavers from Albania, CIA-spook dad Liam Neeson comes after them, does his best Dirty Harry/Paul Kersey on the string of baddies, which leads to a final shoot-out/battle onboard some arabian sheik's yacht in the Seine(!?). End. Girl is rescued and takes singing lessons from Britney(oh hasn't she suffered Enough?!)...
I thought some of the contrivances were hard to swallow and Liam's shooting was right outta Dirty Harry, but okay--you need him to be unstoppable if you are going to have a movie. It's clear they left out many bits and pieces, esp. his dealings w/ the French cops and the Albanian baddies.
You'll prob. not believe a word of it but you do buy Neeson in the role, if that makes sense.
*** outta ****. Crunch.