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Genres:
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Action /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Pierre Morel
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Actors:
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Marc Amyot,
Mathieu Busson,
Liam Neeson,
Maggie Grace,
Leland Orser,
Jon Gries,
David Warshofsky,
Holly Valance,
Katie Cassidy,
Xander Berkeley,
Olivier Rabourdin,
Gérard Watkins,
Famke Janssen,
Arben Bajraktaraj,
Radivoje Bukvic
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Duration:
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93 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)116.5
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Plot Summary:
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The seventeen year-disused Kim is the pride and rapture of her father, the retired agent Bryan Mills that fist the secret ceremony to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart; she convinces the reluctant Bryan to standard an authorization to travel to Paris with her concubine Amanda. When they make the grade, they share a cab with the foreigner Peter and Amanda tells to him that they are alone in Paris. When Bryan succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells that criminals have just break in the particle and they are kidnapped by an Alb... anese overwhelm of human trafficking. Bryan promises in the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter and in a wink travels to Paris to find Kim and chase the criminals.
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5* Action Thriller, 5* Acting from Liam Neeson
Honestly, this is the best action/thriller I've seen in years. It got my attention from the word go, and I was glued to the screen throughout. I very much respect Liam Neeson for his acting, and for the way he carefully chooses his roles (only the best will do!). Once again he has come up trumps with this fantastic film which deserves every success.
Synopsis.
A retired government secret agent (Neeson) is forced to use his skill and combat when his teenage daughter and best friend get kidnapped whilst travelling in Europe.
They messed with the wrong guy
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Fathers for Justice
Liam Neeson stars in this surprisingly unstylish,delicate-as-a-sledgehammer her thriller
from financial manager Luc Besson,and 'Community 13' director Pierre Morel.Neeson plays a retired
US government operative (I know,yawn) who's marriage has gone sour,but who still dotes on his daughter to an almost obsessional rank. When she and a supporter decide to travel across Europe in spite of the dire misgivings of Neeson,you barely know there's going to be agitate.And so it turns discernible.Neeson's daughter and her angel are kidnapped in France by generic swarthy foreigners in Paris,and forced into prostitution.From here on in the film shifts into Jason Bourne domain,that is to signify it turns into a slick-ish continental
thriller/shoot em up,but has n...
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