::::SPOILERS: 3 things they should have done differently :SPOILERS::::

Rating: 9/10 (24 February 2009)

I have to start off saying that I really enjoyed this movie. I've enjoyed Liam Neeson since first seeing him in Suspect with Cher and Dennis Quaid (and he didn't even have any lines). It was amazing to watch the physical transition on his face from worried father to brutal hunter.
Brutal is truly the best word to describe this film. It was something else to see Neeson pull off these fight sequences. Amazingly well done.
There were a few things that both my husband and I agreed that they should have fixed:
1. Where were his buddies? They made a point of introducing these three teammates early on in the film. They were the first people he turned to while still in the States. So, why weren't they there to assist during the hunt? I think that would have been an excellent addition to the action in the film.
2. There was no need to shoot the wife. We didn't like that scene in the slightest. I think the "convincing" could have been better done with well written dialogue instead. Just enough underlying innuendo for the officer to realize the danger he was in.
3. At the end when father and daughter are returning home, they could have easily shifted the focus to a television broadcast as mom and daughter hug or as mom hugs ex-hubby and sees the broadcast over his shoulder, something. Anyway, have a news broadcast talking of the amazing rescue and return of x-number of young women after a massive, coordinated effort to break up the female slavery trade in Europe. Then fade back to the family reunion.
Why doesn't Hollywood just call us before they miss these details? ;-)