Should have been better

Rating: 5/10 (9 February 2009)

The teaser warns how dangerous Liam is and the set-up is enticing... slave trade, kidnapped daughter and so on. Liam had a team of high-tech people to help him...but goes it alone. It's like Mission Impossible, except it's not Tom going solo this time. This should have been a great action film, with gadgets and planning, with a team working together to not only get back Liam's daughter, but bring down the entire kidnapping/slave trade organization. Instead, it's just one string of killings and fight scenes, followed by chases -- plus the baddies are the worst possible shots in the world. At one point machine guns blast away from near point-blank range, shooting holes through the doors and windows of Liam's car...but every shot misses both Liam and the girl in the back seat. And when it's not ridiculous that so many bullets could miss, the shooters simply can't hit a standing target twenty feet away. This would have been a great film if Liam hadn't gone it alone. And he left most of the enslaved girls in the hands of the baddies. What kind of hero is that?