An average movie

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Aaron Eckhart and Olga Kurylenko, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, first of all, even though Kurylenko was displayed prominently on all the promotional material, she was maybe only 10 minutes in the whole thing and, even though she looked lovely as usual, she actually gave here a really weak performance. Concerning the movie itself, it was basically one of these typical Euro thrillers which had been Europacorp's speciality and it seems that the makers tried here to copy their formula. In fact, in my opinion, the genre exploded way before 'Taken', with 'The Bourne Identity' which is easily the best movie in this genre and probably the only one which is actually really good. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, there were some good ideas, here and there, but there was just so much non-sense that pretty much ruined the whole thing. For example, it was pretty neat that the main character was actually a tech guy and it would have been really interesting to see a smart but still rather average guy trying to survive in these circumstances. But, of course, he turned out to be a highly trained former CIA agent and, as a result, he managed to deal with every threat much too easily and this gimmick has been done to death by now. The whole thing was also seriously lazy. For example, at some point, they went to an hospital and the bad guys chasing them pretty much wiped out everyone in this hospital including staff and patients. I mean, were we supposed to believe that no one would notice such a blood bath? Anyway, eventually, even though it had some potential, it turned out to be a rather weak action-thriller and I don't think it is really worth a look.

5/10