Familiar material delivers on its promise

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2011)

Except for the Paris scenes, there's almost nothing new here. Liam Neeson is an ideal choice for his role. Fortunately, he doesn't overdo it. I don't mind unoriginal movies as long as they entertain. And unlike most hostage pictures, we don't see the kidnapped person again until the very end. Another original aspect of the movie is when a couple of kidnapped victims (including the one played by Maggie Grace) are being "sold". I also didn't find the kidnappers to be especially evil, but that doesn't detract from how good the movie is. Mostly the movie is just Liam Neeson beating the crap out of the bad guys and him and them shooting at one another.
*** out of ****