The Most Straight to the Point Movie I've Ever Seen

Rating: 7/10 (29 September 2009)

Stranded in the office because of storm-related flooding, I watched this movie to pass the time. And my, that time went by so fast with this film! Liam Neeson plays Bryan, a divorced, down-and-out retired spy who hankers to get closer with his daughter, Kim. Daughter goes to Paris one day but gets abducted by a white slavery gang on her first day there. But fortunately, she just so happened to be on the phone with her dad when she got abducted. So super-spy dad figures everything out from the little he had recorded on his phone, goes to Paris, infiltrates the Albanian gang and rescues his daughter after she has been sold off at a flesh auction. This was all told within an hour and a half of exciting movie story-telling.
Director Pierre Morel does very well in his first English language feature, after being more well known as a cinematographer in France. It is written by prominent French writer/director Luc Besson. They don't waste time on unnecessary details. Of course, you need to suspend your disbelief as Bryan methodically executes his perfect plans with nary a hitch, and the impossible became a reality.
It was a good action thriller. The family drama interspersed with the action does not fail to give it some heart. This film goes straight to the point. There is not a moment of screen time or your time wasted.