Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is a retired agent who left the Secret Service and nowadays he's working as bodyguard for a star singer ( Holly Valance). Mills has a daughter named Kim (Maggie Grace) living in California with her mother Lenore (Famke Janssen)and her stepfather (Xander Berkeley) . Kim manages to convince her distrustful dad to allow a trip to Paris with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy). When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger . After that , a gang of human traffickers abduct Amanda at a flat . Kim barely has time to call her daddy and give him information about an Albanese kidnapper. Bryan gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to murder him. Bryan swears revenge and retaliation against his kidnappers . He confronts his enemies in order to find out location his daughter, but someone is still after him and is forced to once again take up violent means to survive. He attempts contact some Eastern mobsters but is chased by strange pursuers .He takes the law on his own hands and acting as a relentless revenger .
This exciting film contains suspense, thrills, frenetic action, shootouts and violent fights. From the beginning to the final the noisy action and fast movement is unstopped. Liam Neeson acting as hard-rock,two-fisted retired agent is top-notch . Good cinematography by cameraman Michel Abramowicz using Steadicam and zooms with numerous locations from Paris. The musician Nathaniel Mechaly creates a stirring, moving soundtrack fitting to frantic action. Lavishly produced by the successful French producer and director Luc Besson. The flick is stunningly realized by the habitual cameraman, Pierre Morel in his second film, the first was ¨13th District¨. Rating: Better than average, well worth seeing. The picture will appeal to explosive action fans
This exciting film contains suspense, thrills, frenetic action, shootouts and violent fights. From the beginning to the final the noisy action and fast movement is unstopped. Liam Neeson acting as hard-rock,two-fisted retired agent is top-notch . Good cinematography by cameraman Michel Abramowicz using Steadicam and zooms with numerous locations from Paris. The musician Nathaniel Mechaly creates a stirring, moving soundtrack fitting to frantic action. Lavishly produced by the successful French producer and director Luc Besson. The flick is stunningly realized by the habitual cameraman, Pierre Morel in his second film, the first was ¨13th District¨. Rating: Better than average, well worth seeing. The picture will appeal to explosive action fans