Good action movie but bit unfinished

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2009)

This is pretty good action movie. Unlike many other its kind, you really cant feel the 'hero' would overreact. Personally I really don't like abuse of women, and move shows some gruesome scenes of it, which make me actually glad of the body count.
Usually I dislike the high body count, because it has flimsy excuses for sake of just killing. But in this case, I could actually believe character Liam Nelson played would act so and very few people would object to it.
Every father worries for his daughter, and in that respect I found Liam's actions actually believable.
There are some ackward moments in the film like others have noted. Like when the main character portrays himself as French official and starts to talk to albanian criminals about satellites who see and hear everything - in plain English. Next he asks things he should know either by being person he portrays or what he should know if the satellites really see and hear everything. Also in few scenes I think more people would have come to arrest main characters. He seems to occasionally have aura of untouchablity.
But these are minor flaws, lot of action films have lot more blatant and less subtle errors. At least in this movie each car that crashes somewhere doesn't blow up automatically.
What bit ruined me it all was the end of the movie. I can understand that people recover fast, but I found it bit implausible that the daughter returns to childhood dreams enthuastically despite her best friend got killed and she herself kidnapped, drugged and almost raped.
After seen the body count and surroundings it didn't feel plausible.
Overall I think Liam Neelson played his part very well, but the script was bit oversimplified in some parts which left him look bit stupid I think. His character needed bit more depth in the father daughter relation.
But he was very believable action person, really refreshing to see something not so overblown as in many Hollywood films.