I like this film a lot, because this is what should always happen to all those dirty, lousy, patheticly useless scumbags trying to make or use money to compensate for their lack of anything else, who take daughters away from their fathers.
Here it happens because Kim was for years left practically alone with her stupid spoiled mother who is still so pissed off with her ex-husband that she always stands in his way and tries to make him look bad : you can't follow the rules, you should leave the present here, you should go there away from her despite the fact that you came here only to see her, you should think of her for once, you have always been invisible... please someone, anyone, give her a good kick in the ass okay? I mean, some women actually have good reasons for saying these things I'm sure, but this one doesn't. It's not as if he went his own way to have fun, or to do some kind of job important only to him, or if he spent his days drinking, or else. No, he had a serious job, and he's a good person, and really really loves his daughter. This woman raised her child constantly badmouthing her father, no doubt. Paranoid, yeah right!
Anyway, what happens? This 17 year-old spoiled girl from California wants to go to Paris alone with her 19 year-old friend Amanda (19? So old? Of course, then, what's the problem? *rolling eyes*) and then tour the rest of Europe to follow the dates of U2 concerts, although we never once hear this girl listen to their music, and her mother tells him Don't be paranoic, what's wrong with that, let her go wherever she wants and do whatever she wants, what on earth could ever happen? It appears she has never watched a news program in her life! She's not in the least concerned, her life is all shiny and golden.
Amanda is the kind of girl ready to follow a guy she's never met everywhere simply because she thinks he's cute, ready to show him where she lives, to tell him she and her friend are all alone in the house, with all their relatives countries away. Smart, really smart.
The only person who is concerned is him, Brian the father (Liam Neeson) who learns while he's on the phone with his daughter that some men have entered the house and taken Amanda, and now they're coming to get her. Brian is well trained, and loves his daughter, so he tells those men that if they don't let her go "I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you" then guess what he does? He immediately flies to Paris and looks for her. He leaves a trail of dead bodies. The guy that lured the pretty girl alone away from home, the guys that drugged the girls, the guys that turned them into prostitutes: all dead. He finds Amanda dead, and learns that Kim is not there because being a virgin she was more valuable and will be sold for much much more. (...she didn't act like a virgin, for sure, how did they find out? simply asking? or they had all the girls they took tested?)
Amanda is the kind of girl ready to follow a guy she's never met everywhere simply because she thinks he's cute, ready to show him where she lives, to tell him she and her friend are all alone in the house, with all their relatives countries away. Smart, really smart.
The only person who is concerned is him, Brian the father (Liam Neeson) who learns while he's on the phone with his daughter that some men have entered the house and taken Amanda, and now they're coming to get her. Brian is well trained, and loves his daughter, so he tells those men that if they don't let her go "I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you" then guess what he does? He immediately flies to Paris and looks for her. He leaves a trail of dead bodies. The guy that lured the pretty girl alone away from home, the guys that drugged the girls, the guys that turned them into prostitutes: all dead. He finds Amanda dead, and learns that Kim is not there because being a virgin she was more valuable and will be sold for much much more. (...she didn't act like a virgin, for sure, how did they find out? simply asking? or they had all the girls they took tested?)
He tracks down and kills the men that sold her, the man who bought her and all the men protecting the disgusting man. Good.
He finally finds her girl and takes her back home. Good.
Now, I know this is just an action movie, it's not a brain thing, there's nothing to follow, and in a way the things he finds out in no time seem excessive, but this is that kind of film, just action, nothing more. Not funny, not brainy, just action. He simply stated he worked years with the government preventing bad things from happening, and one of his friends simply listening at a few words is able to tell him such a lot about the guy who took her... well it seems stretched but after all what do I know about what they can actually do? Maybe they really can, how can I say they can't? I just like the action, and the bit of story because I like stories of father-daughter love. And Liam Neeson too.
He finally finds her girl and takes her back home. Good.
Now, I know this is just an action movie, it's not a brain thing, there's nothing to follow, and in a way the things he finds out in no time seem excessive, but this is that kind of film, just action, nothing more. Not funny, not brainy, just action. He simply stated he worked years with the government preventing bad things from happening, and one of his friends simply listening at a few words is able to tell him such a lot about the guy who took her... well it seems stretched but after all what do I know about what they can actually do? Maybe they really can, how can I say they can't? I just like the action, and the bit of story because I like stories of father-daughter love. And Liam Neeson too.
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