Technically perfect, but situations only good for popcorn munchers.

Rating: 6/10 (18 June 2011)

I was enjoying this film so much... until the car accident on that Berlin bridge. Practically from then on, from being a realistic kind of script, it becomes another car chasing routine, the kind where everyone is a phenomenal driver zigzagging through a heavy city traffic, damaging anything on sight, but without killing anybody..., so we enter that fantasy land so particular to Hollywood movies, and from then on I lost a lot of interest in it.
All those fist fights with explosive sounds every time they hit each other, grown up men like Neeson that obviously cannot have that kind of agility and yet, they hit each other in a way you think they'll end up with a raw hamburger for a face and shredded knuckles, but no, they appeared in the next scene with a tiny band-aid on the forehead... Maybe this kind of film is geared to a very young audience, happy to watch anything that moves and makes plenty of noise, amplified to a hearing loss degree, but for a thinking adult they are just a perfect waste of time.
Pity because the making of this film is absolute perfection. I wonder if Hollywood could make this very same movie, getting to the bridge accident scene, and continue the story in a natural, every day life kind of process without magic fights, magic car chases, magic explosions and magic plots... am I asking for the impossible?