Good Action Flick

Rating: 7/10 (31 January 2009)

Just got back from the theater (caught a $5 10:00 am cheapie @ AMC) and thought this was a good movie, with a good plot and action sequences, albeit typical shoot 'em up how the hell did Liam Neeson not just get killed fashion.
Liam Neeson is a retired CIA spook whose daughter lives with his ex-wife and her current husband, who apparently is very very rich. The movie begins with Liam attending his daughter's birthday party at her home, which looks a lot like the Villa Borghese. The daughter goes to Paris with a friend and is kidnapped by some Albanian mafia types, to be sold into a prostitution ring. The rest of the movie is Liam opening up several jars of whoopass on the bad guys. It was lucky for Liam that the Albanians were terrible shots. They couldn't hit water if they fell off a boat.
I had fun and so will anyone who enjoys these types of action movies. Liam Neeson was pretty much the movie, everyone else were villains straight out of central casting. Judging from their ineptness, they were graduates of Dr. Evil's Henchman Academy.
Given what else is currently playing, this is definitely worth checking out.