An entertaining thriller

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2011)

Not quite as memorable as Taken but Liam Neeson's presence lifts this film out of the ordinary. Liam convinces the viewer for most of the film that he's a devoted husband until he learns, and we learn, the shocking truth that he's, in fact, an assassin. Somehow, partial memory loss, from a car accident reverses his true nature. Once happy to eliminate a top bio-technologist he later attempts to save him so that the world can benefit from a drought and pest resistant corn. However, the fighting skills he had as an assassin are also partially lost with the partial memory loss. Several times he manages to escape attempts on his life by his former colleagues who want to eliminate him in case he jeopardizes the plot to kill the bio-technologist. He befriends a young, female illegal immigrant taxi-driver who saves him from drowning in the taxi-crash and twice saves him again as the story unfolds. Despite the usual deviations from reality that thrillers seem to contain it's primary purpose to entertain is not diminished.