Excellent high paced action flick

Rating: 9/10 (13 January 2014)

I saw this film a while back and loved it. Recently I was looking at the reviews here and was surprised at some of the negative comments that it has received. After making note of the more common complaints I decided to watch it again to see if any of them were warranted. I just finished watching it and I've come to the conclusion that most of the problems people had were completely unreasonable.
The first complaint was that it was insensitive to the real life problem of sex trafficking, because the main character didn't go out of his way to save every heroin addicted slave prostitute that he came across.--Well what was he supposed to do, rent a bus and let them all jones out in the back as he's offing scumbags? Remember he has 96 hours to save his daughter minus the 20 hours it took to get to Europe.
The second complaint was that it portrayed Albanians in a negative light. --- Well this movie wasn't about normal Albanians, it was about Albanian sex traffickers. So, I guess the writers should be sorry they portrayed Albanian sex traffickers in a negative light? The other complaint was that it supposedly took too long to get to the action. So I guess you don't like any kind of back story in your action movies? You just want people randomly killing people without any explanation? It took 30 minutes to establish his relationship with his daughter followed by 60 minutes of nonstop action. Take it easy.
The other complaint was that it was somehow offensive to Europeans because it somehow suggested that America is safer than Europe.---Oh yes, it's a common belief here in the U.S. that our country of unrestricted gun ownership is much safer than gunless Europe. Come on people, it's just a hypothetical situation and the only reason it took place in Europe is because we don't have as much human trafficking here (at least not in this century).
There were several more complaints that can all be answered with the simple explanation of IT's Just A FKEAKING Movie. It's a bunch of hypothetical situation strung together in an entertaining way. It's not trying to make a political statement, or raise awareness about one thing or another. It's just an excuse to watch fictitious A-holes get what's coming to them as they so rarely do in real life.
I give it 9 stars to counteract the haters. In reality 7.9 is very accurate I would say.