A good movie

Since I kept hearing some really good things about this movie, I was quite eager to check it out.  Eventually, I have to agree, it was a solid and entertaining action flick, no doubt about it, but I still think it was rather overrated. The funny thing is that, somehow, I ended up watching it with my wife who argued that something like this was actually likely to happen to any young girl carelessly travelling through Europe. I was really amazed that she would believe something like this and, in fact, Liam Neeson himself told that it was actually a dumb action flick and that someone would be rather stupid to take it really seriously. Anyway,  even though it was in fact a rather generic action flick, the masterstroke was obviously to have Liam Neeson playing the lead character. Indeed, before this movie was released, he was maybe an odd choice but it was in fact really smart to have someone with some actual acting chops to play such a typical bad-ass action character. Eventually, it worked so well that Liam Neeson would spend most of his time afterwards (even today) playing the same kind of character in some similar movies. Well, in my opinion, if you would remove Neeson, the whole thing would just be some other decent action flick but not much more than that. Still, I have to admit it, it is actually a pretty cool movie and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.