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3/10
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nammage9 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers
It's about an hour long and reminded me of the first "Taken" film though the "kidnapping" doesn't really happen until around the ending and then the ending is just her father stating they're (paraphrase) "messing with the wrong guy" and that he's coming after them.

This film moves slowly for an hour long film. The father chops wood for a living, or something (one of the times my mind began to wander) and he's divorced from his wife who's remarried and he may or may not be permitted to see his daughter (though there are scenes where they see each other) and something about Iranians making a film but really they're terrorists. I don't know...my mind kept wandering.

Some of the acting wasn't that bad. I've actually seen worse. The video quality is about the same as the video quality on a cell phone. They do use multiple locations, which is a good thing but the direction and writing was sub par and there's absolutely no originality to the story.

The music is sometimes off putting in how they use the composition for certain scenes. They also used horror genre effects (like in the beginning when the main character's chopping wood) that seemed out of place what ultimately seemed like a Thriller (not so much that genre, either).

They have it subtitled (I have no idea why, seemed all in English to me) but some of the subtitles have misspellings and mistypes.

Overall: not the worst film I've seen but they shouldn't have left a TV-style cliffhanger.
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1/10
All those movie rip-offs and still no logical sense
don_juan27 August 2017
Absolutely awful. This movie rips off scenes and plot from various movies (mostly "Taken"), but ends up being a jumbled nonsensical mess. It just seems like an hour long trailer. I've categorized the different ways this movie killed itself.

RIP-OFF: From the very beginning a shot which is obviously copied from the wood-chopping intro to "Commando", you can sense that you're in for an hour of cr@p.

TIMELINE: The editor doesn't seem to know what chronological order means.The timeline of this movie jumps back and forth more than your brain can keep track of. At first they try to let you know where in the timeline you are by captions like "2 weeks from now", and "2 days before kidnapping".... but after a while they seem to give up. You'll be shown shots of girls being kidnapped, then the same girls auditioning for a calendar, then trying to escape, then being "introduced", then being operated on, then taking photos at photoshoot...and it goes on leaving you with a feeling of "wtf is happening?"

NARRATION: Narration by two different guys, very random and don't match the scene, and they same the same things over and over again, like "I'd do anything for my daughter", "he'd do anything for his daughter", "born into mafia". After a while the random phrases just turn into random words, and seem to talk about events that happened 30 mins earlier in the movie, but as if they just occurred ("she was excited to se the keys, but didn't realize how much she hurt her father".

STEREOTYPES: OK so every middle-easterner wears literally towels on their heads which are timber clamped to the back of their heads (i sh1t you not), sells bodyparts, slaves and is a threat to national security.

FACTUAL ERRORS: So despite the writer/director being Russian, he assumes that KGB and Russian mob, and CIA are all the same thing, and the lead character is or was in all of them.

....there's more to come, but I've only seen 40 mins of the movie.
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1/10
Worst Movie Ever
jcareccia24 June 2019
This movie is so badd it's like watching a long YouTube video. When Jeff The Drunk is your best Actor, you got problems.
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