What happened to the action films?

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2009)

Liam Neeson stars as a retired CIA agent whose daughter gets kidnapped by some bad guys in Paris, and he has 96 hours to save her.
First, good news. Liam Neeson is a very good actor.
Now, the bad news.
1) Recently, action films have terrible editing. Why do filmmakers think action sequences are more exciting with choppy editing? (See Quantum of Solace and the second Bourne film). This film follows in that lousy tradition. The editing served to confuse, rather than enlighten.
2) Some serious lapses in logic in the film reminded me of 1970's action TV shows, a la Starsky and Hutch. Some examples:
-- when Neeson chases the bad guy up the ramp at the airport and causes a traffic jam, no drivers leave their car to see what's happening
-- when Neeson brings a girl back to his hotel room, he somehow acquired medicine, plastic tubing, an IV, a syringe to help her get better. Did he have these medical supplies stuffed down his pants? Did he stop and buy them?
-- when Neeson confronts the bad guys, he gives one of them a card that says "Good Luck" in Albanian, and asks the guy to translate it. How'd Neeson know that that was the guy he spoke to on the phone?
I don't know how some folks thought this was a good film, but it wasn't. Except for the acting, not really worth seeing.