worse than awful

Rating: 1/10 (25 October 2009)

I'm astonished that anyone has found anything of value in this shoot-em-up stinker. Just of few of the many idiocies strung together to form a "plot:" **Ingrid, the Swedish supermodel, steps out of the airport and agrees to get into a car with a short French guy (named Peter?). Sure, why not? **An American CIA vet, who can barely manage a "merci beaucoup," passes himself off as a member of French Internal Security? puhleese! **The crooked French agent thinks he can persuade Bryan to forget about his daughter and go back home with the promise of a First Class plane ticket? Window seat? **Daughter Kim returns home to LA looking like Gidget who has maybe lost her cell phone on summer vacation, despite the fact that she has just been abducted, drugged, imprisoned, abused, sold, and come within millimeters of having her throat cut by the Sheik of Araby? Aieee!
The interesting question is why a film with these (or any other) qualities resonates so well with the public at any given moment.