An average movie

I didn't know this before watching this movie but it was actually another action flick written by Luc Besson. This time, instead of working with his usual obscure French directors (Pierre Morel, Olivier Megaton, Gérard Krawczyk,...), he was working with McG, a rather famous (but not very talented) US director. Well, I always had a hard time to care about those action movies produced and written by Besson but this might be the worse one I have seen so far. Of course, it would be easy to blame McG but I think the biggest issue is that it was just really poorly written. I mean, there were a couple of good ideas but most of it was really derivative or just didn't work at all. First of all, like many other Besson productions, most of the action was taking place in Paris and, yet, barely no one was speaking French. Concerning the plot, it was just too similar to 'Taken' which was already rather overrated in my opinion. Then, why Amber Heard's character kept changing looks throughout the whole thing? Seriously, it seems that Besson spent even less this time than usual on this script as it felt all really random and poorly developed. Anyway, to conclude, I think I'm being rather generous with my rating here, it was a really weak action movie and I don't think it is really worth a look. 

5/10