A cookie-cutter miraculously creating a paradoxically unique thriller.

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2009)

Excellent entertainment AND an emotional relief despite the fact that practically ALL the elements are the recycled moves and takes from Bond and Bourne movies. The difference is that love for a daughter - so genuinely performed by Neeson and staged/edited by Morel and his crew - makes the watching experience so griping and charged. Although the superman's abilities are pretty unbelievable (not unlike in the mentioned above other ones') - you watch it with absorption and participation that makes you almost jittery with excitement and suspense. That's another paradox - in a predictable in practically all the aspects film - suspense. What a miracle creativity presents!
The other somewhat subtler line is relationship between Brian and Lenore charged with anger and regret - and back to anger. His work vs. his family life. His regret and guilt for not being there for his wife and daughter. As trivial as it might be - the line has been literally in the thousands of films - it creates the charge that propels the story development into a paradox of cookie-cutter elements composing a quite uniquely emotional thriller.