I will admit this movie still holds up over time. One of the best action movies to be made in a long time and it was so good that it created it's genre much like Die Hard and The Bourne Identity did when they come out.
Simple story line about a father's daughter who gets kidnapped and then what he goes through to find her. The immediate idea of the story is used to easily connect the viewer to the hero and what happens next. Then throw in the pacing of the movie which breezes along at a break neck speed but doesn't feel over done or that it's moving to quickly. It's paced just right which each action scene and detective scene feeling just right and never over done. The pacing also is handled with great command of communication in that I never once felt lost into what was happening from the detective point of view of the story nor in the fight scenes.
Liam Neeson is the ultimate star and guiding force of this movie. This movie is all the better for it. I really liked seeing Liam Neeson kicking ass and taking few names or at least only the names he needed to find his daughter. He presence dominates every scene he's in and the violence he dolls out is completely justified without there being any sympathy for the villains he kills, in fact there is only empathy for him as tries to find his daughter.
Good movie, with great pacing, good timing (90 minutes), and with a great action star performance by Liam Neeson.
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