This is a really bad movie

Rating: 2/10 (8 January 2012)

This movie fails on so many levels. I just watched this movie and I am very surprised with the good reviews it got. This is exactly the kind of movie that makes non Americans think of the Americans as stupid and uneducated. It just insults my intelligence as a viewer, and after seeing positive reviews it diminishes my faith in general human intelligence.
Don't get me wrong I don't think a movie has to be particularly consistent or realistic to be fun, but this movie presents it self as something that could happen in the real world. What I want to say is I don't mind seeing Rambo shooting down a chopper with a bow and arrow, on the contrary I'd expect that in a Rambo movie and would've enjoyed it, but this movie pretends to be plausible and it really sucks at that.
There are so many holes in the script that I don't know where to start. First of all we have a retired and pretty old James Bond kind of guy who during the movie kills more people then Jackie Chen. Then put all that in a very dangerous setting, let's say Paris for instance, cause we all know that after Bagdad it's the unsafest city in the world.
And then you have the infamous Albanian mafia, that doesn't know a better way to make money then to kidnap girls from developed western countries and turn them into prostitutes. I sincerely doubt those guys ever had ideas like that, they smuggle heroin and weapons which is much more profitable for them. Now I could be convinced some Romanian, gypsy or Albanian girl was sold to work as a prostitute, but even then it was more likely it was done by her relatives or someone she knew, and its highly doubtful they would kidnap girls from elite Paris neighborhoods in the middle of a day.
Also it's very interesting how they hook the girls they kidnap on heroin in a matter of hours, and that all the girls in the brothel look like zombies on crack. Who would go to such a brothel, when you have such great brothels all around Europe? Obviously the makers of the movie haven't been in any of the European brothels, which I must say is a shame, cause they would've had some fun and would have not wasted enormous amount of money to make such a bad movie. Next time go to Germany, Switzerland, Netherland... and visit some nice FKK it will save you the trouble, and us the pain.
What's even more funny is that his daughter's friend, who was not a virgin, got overdosed(totally counterproductive from the Albanian mafia)in the first 48 hours she was kidnapped, and even if she didn't die she would have been destined for a career of a low life prostitute in the hands of the mafia, while Neesom's daughter which was a virgin, would have been sold for half a million euros or dollars, whatever. No one would pay that kind of money for a kidnapped teen just to deflower her, for god sakes Ribery payed something like 2k for a 16 year old, and she made a career after wards. No, but in this movie they have an auction for this girl, and buyers came from all around the world like she is a nuclear missile, it's just so sad.
Now there is numerous number of other script flaws in this movie, like when Neeson pretends that he is a French policeman without speaking a word of French, Or when he saves some girl from a brothel and puts her on infusion, which he happens to carry around with him to clean her from drugs cause he is a hobbyist doctor, not to mention that in the end they just let him fly out of a country after he killed a few dozen men and shot a French policeman's wife.
Now what bothers me most about this movie is not the inconsistencies it's the main actor Liam Neeson. I saw his name, and have seen very good grades here on IMDb and based on that I decided to watch this movie. What a mistake. Note to myself, don't just watch the scores read a few reviews next time.
Neeson is obviously a crafty actor and makes scenes look realistic, which only adds to my annoyance with this film. I used to think he was at least a decent actor, and now I can't help wondering why did he shoot such a bad movie? I would think that a guy of his reputation and age could choose a role and a movie he wants to play in. I dunno maybe the money was to good, but he certainly didn't need to make this movie.
He is a mature actor, that could be playing serious character roles, instead he chooses to play super-spy father figure medicine man ronin. I just can't understand that, shame on him. Btw sorry for any mistakes English is not my native language, oh and I am also not French, Albanian, Iraqi or anything else that you might think had influence on this review.