tripe

Rating: 1/10 (25 July 2010)

There are so many things wrong with this movie on so many levels, it's hard to decide where to begin. I watched it in it's entirety only because of the 'car wreck mentality'. It's terrible to see but you can't look away due to perverse curiosity. So, I kept wondering how much worse this movie could become? I was dumbfounded to find average to good external reviews. Some perplexing plot holes are: the bad guys grab the two screaming 'teenagers' from the Paris Apt, but evidently have the presence of mind to lock the doors behind them (Bryan had to break a window to get in). Also, if Bryan were desperate to find his daughter, why not just kick in the front door? Aside from all the absurd fight and shoot-out scenes (he dispatches 37 bad guys in total) the ending had to be the lamest part of the flick. The scene where he and his recently abducted, drugged, and traumatized daughter exit the airport: she does the goofy teenage girl run to mommy with a big goofy grin on her face-- like she actually saw the whole U2 tour, instead of barely escaping with her life. Lame-- so lame.