Liam Neeson goes psycho looking for his daughter

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2015)

I'd heard of this movie but for some reason I had never got around to watching it until recently, even though a friend of mine told me that it is 'full on'. I have even read some commentary on it about how the entire movie is basically Liam Neeson running around killing people. Okay, I'm not sure if he kills everybody that he encounters (he doesn't kill any of the French Police) however he does leave an awful lot of destruction in his wake.
The thing with his character is that he is a former operative that once worked for the government (though we are not given any specific details) who has decided to retire to spend some more time with his family. Unfortunately he was a little too late because his wife had already left him for another man and taken his daughter with her. However they are still in touch, and since he is her biological father he is approached to sign a form to allow her to travel to Europe to follow U2 around.
Unfortunately for the two girls upon arriving in Europe they are kidnapped by some Albanians for use as sex slaves, however since his daughter is a virgin she is worth a lot more so is shuffled off to be auctioned to the highest bidder. However, as is expected, Neeson learns about this pretty quickly (namely when she is in the process of being kidnapped) and travels directly to Paris to attempt to trap these people down, using what ever means necessary (and leaving a trail of bodies behind him).
The interesting thing that I noted about this movie is how it paints the United States as being a haven of safety (despite the fact that they live in Los Angeles) where as the rest of the world is an incredibly dangerous place. Look, I'm sure that stuff like that is going on, but I was a little dubious about whether these crooks would be targeting American girls, especially ones from a wealthy background. I am sure, if such a thing were to happen, the US embassy would be on it immediately. These organisations are more likely to use girls from Eastern European countries, and ones that wouldn't come from a wealthy background. It is also interesting how these guys get the girls addicted to heroin so that they are much more pliable and unaware of their situation.
However, despite the fact that this is an unrealistic scenario, it is still one of those movies that you turn your brain off and watch Liam Neeson go psycho as he storms through the Parisian underworld searching for these guys who had the audacity to kidnap his daughter (and effectively freeing all of the other girls as well, though it is never all that clear what happened to his daughter's friend – though it seems as if she was dead).