![[Screen It]](https://www.screenit.com/images/screenit_subscriber_logo.jpg)
That is, except for the signature required for Kim to travel to Paris with her 19-year-old best friend, Amanda (KATIE CASSIDY) and stay with the latter's cousins. Lenore has given her approval, but Bryan is reluctant, not only due to being an overprotective father, but also because he's seen the dangers out in the real world. That point has just recently been driven home when Bryan takes a freelance gig with his agency buddies as bodyguards for pop star Sheerah (HOLLY VALANCE), with Bryan having to save her life from a knife-wielding assailant.
Even so, and afraid that he might loose Kim forever if he says no, Bryan begrudgingly gives her permission to go abroad, on the condition that she call him everyday. She agrees and soon arrives in Paris where she and Amanda meet a friendly local, Peter (NICOLAS GIRAUD), who shares a cab and escorts them to their place. But he's really a scout for a gang of Albanian thugs who routinely kidnap pretty girls and sell them into the sex slave trade.
While Bryan is on the phone with Kim, men break into their apartment and kidnap both. Delivering an ultimatum to the ringleader, Marko (ARBEN BAJRAKTARAJ), that he will find and kill all of them, Bryan flies to Paris and begins his exhaustive search for his daughter. Using every tool from his years of training and expertise, including a visit to former French spook turned government desk jockey Jean-Claude (OLIVIER RABOURDIN), Bryan pursues every lead and leaves many bodies in his wake as he tries to find Kim.
Violence involves those abductions as well as many scenes of a vigilante fighting, wounding and killing many villains by various means and weapons, with many of the blows being quite brutal in nature, while a person is also hit by a truck and there's a scene of torture involving electric shock.
Some of that has bloody results, but not as much as one might expect considering the degree of said violence. Those scenes and moments of potential peril might be unsettling and/or suspenseful to some viewers, while all sorts of bad attitudes are present. The various stunts and other such behavior might be enticing for kids to imitate.
Alcohol is present in several scenes, and there's brief cigarette use, while various abducted women are seen drugged and strung-out (forced that way by their adductors). Tense family material is also present.
Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.
For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, there's a lot of that, briefly, from paparazzi cameras, and then later in a room where a light is flashing.
For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, there are varying amounts of camera movement (sometimes fairly bouncy) at various points in the film.
All Rights Reserved,
(2009) (Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace) (PG-13)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Heavy
Mild
Extreme
Moderate
Extreme
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Heavy
None
Extreme
None
Moderate
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Heavy
Minor
Heavy
Heavy
Extreme
CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO
Then read OUR TAKE of this film.
(Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below).
Reviewed January 27, 2009 / Posted January 30, 2009
By entering this site you acknowledge to having read and agreed to the above conditions.
©1996-2022 Screen It, Inc.