Dexter meets 24

Rating: 10/10 (2 September 2009)

I liked it. This film is basically about a Bourne-type character who goes after his kidnapped daughter whose been taken for the sex slavery trade.
It has the usual clichés - kidnapped tourists turned into drugged sex slaves - Albanian gangsters - Arab slavers - which panders to your xenophobic side. And a super spy which kicks their asses. How macho is that? But hey, it does have a big element of truth there. The female sex slavery trade is alive and well and those groups do take a big part in it. This truth may bother your liberal tendencies - deal with it. Its just as accurate as any of Michael Moore or Al Gore's films. :) Now that I've dumped on your lunch, I thought the film pacing, story, was pretty good. It probably won't win many Academy Awards which would be going to a film about a deafnblind mime. But you won't be falling asleep and your girlfriend and daughters would probably be more careful when they go traveling. I'll give it 10/10 - an extra 3 because of films like History Boys which was a totally horrible film.