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From Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, the
producer and writer of ‘The Transporter’, comes another lean, mean
action movie. An anxious American father is on the phone to his daughter
when she and her friend are abducted from their Paris hotel. Her dream
holiday was always his worst nightmare. Now that nightmare is real. He
has 96 hours to save his daughter from being sold into prostitution.
Pretty much what you’d expect, then, except for one surprise: the
father, an ex-government agent with ‘a particular set of skills’, is
played by heavyweight Liam
Neeson.
Neeson’s presence lends dramatic heft to a formulaic
action movie that otherwise majors in chase scenes and the brutally
efficient use of firepower, martial arts, fire extinguishers and broken
bottles. The quest is simple, as are the undeniable pleasures. Director Pierre
Morel’s directing style is ruthlessly efficient, but leaves no time
to ponder the plot holes or the borderline racist portrayal of vicious
Albanian gangsters and sleazy Arab businessmen.