You won't be disappointed!

One of my all time favorites.

Awesome Movie

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Even Though this film would not be classified as a horror movie, people who enjoyed the original video nasties of the 80's might enjoy this too. On one level I was thinking about the Texas chainsaw massacre and how the remake creates leatherface as an anti-hero. What seems to be lacking in many horror remakes is the ability to pick on, and demonize minority groups and a large dose of misogyny. This film manages this. The idea of casting howard marks, is effective as exploitation cinema in the best possible way, it adds an authenticity to any criminal elements that many develop later in the film.I can see a connection with this film and 'taken' but the dialogue is very poor. Saying that the pacing is good, the plot unfolds at exciting pace. it is not bad as a horror/thriller.

I am a big fan of Taken, and so is the writer of this film! Except while one expects people to take inspiration from previous works to help them tell a story, this one just ends up being something of a crappy movie you see on TV once when you have nothing better to do.The opening premise makes you think "Well, this might actually have something to offer." At the very least I expected some nice eye candy to look at or maybe even some mindless action. Hell obviously this isn't going to be something classic like the Godfather or Citizen Kane but at least try to make the movie worth watching.The plot is as dumb as a bag of rocks. The characters are even dumber.I'll put the spoiler alert up at this point. Though I think you'd thank me if I didn't.***SPOILERS*** -If your girlfriend doesn't care about money and other things, why the hell would she care about what you look like when you're "old and fat"? That's a rather contradictory and shallow move. Sounds like she a shallow bitch to me.-Wouldn't it concern said girlfriend if you arrive in Spain and are greeted by a servant, a gorgeous house, and an absent father who allows you to screw on his bed while he's away? I mean any sane woman I know would view this as troubling at least.-If you arrive a club that is obviously seedy and are offered an unknown drug after your valet warns you not to use a cab, wouldn't you avoid the drugs at least? I mean that's just common sense. It's being safe not to take drugs when in a strange land that you are completely new to.-Bumbling around a town trying to find your girlfriend and messing with a guy who is armed and dangerous is apparently the way to do things. And this guy apparently has a degree. In what? Communications or Art Philosophy? It'd sort of redeem the film if he had some skills that actually worked to his advantage. Otherwise he just whines like a little bitch to his daddy and a cop who is being completely reasonable.-The mantra of the film is really stupid. If the moments that define a man happen when he's not in the area, then they aren't his defining moments. That's just trying to sound like some sort of Nick Cage line that falls even flatter than Cage's acting.In Taken we can suspend our disbelief relatively easily. It's not going to be some high-brow film but a simple action movie that covers things nicely. Even the few plot holes can be justified or overlooked because the story trots along nicely. We came to see Liam Neeson be awesome and shoot up bad men, not be a simpering wimp who meanders along the streets of a Spanish town.

There's a lot not to like about this movie. It is advertised as an exploitation movie, but it resembles the exploitation movies of the 1970's, just enough sex and violence to cover a two minute trailer. It also tries, but mostly fails to give the lead character much depth and realism.That said, it does a couple of things nicely. We do care about the lead female character and we do feel fear and concern when she is "taken." (Did "Taken" copy the phrase from this movie which was two years earlier?) Also, we do feel a sense of despair for the plight of the lead male character, who is helpless, but not really stupid (until near the end). There is some originally in the plotting, For example, the villain is a psychopathic Russian Muslim convert who doesn't kill people during the Ramadam fasting month. Tell me where you have seen that before? The cinematography and editing are commercially slick. It is nicely done for an ultra-low budget movie like this.One can't blame the filmmakers for disguising the film as an exploitation flick. A more honest description would be "an Albert Camus inspired existentialist meditation on the difficulty of holding onto love in the postmodern capitalist world." Probably, nobody would have seen it if they had advertised the film this way.

No reviews for this yet? There must be a lot of lucky people out there, then. I supposes it's up to me to warn them the general public about another straight to DVD piece of crap. *Cracks knuckles* Okay, sounds like a sexy set-up, doesn't it? A guy takes his pretty fiancée to Spain to meet his gangsta father, but before they can see each other she ends up getting drugged and abducted in a seedy night-club. Then, she is spirited away to a yacht belonging to a perverted Muslim (Why is it never a Jew or a Christian?) where they intend to use her as a sex slave. Her distraught beau can't get any assistance from his criminal papa, so he teams up with a hairy trailer trash bloke who's sister was similarly kidnapped by these traffickers, to storm the boat and recover his gal. However, daddy has a change of heart later on, which leads to complications and tragedy..Okay, now let me stop you right there. Now, looking at the description above, you're probably imagining all manner of seedy goings on, ain't ya? Well sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but what perversions occur in this movie are fragmented at best, and are so laughably depicted you're more likely to be in hysterics rather than getting off to them. Yes, the director actually expects us to give a hill o' beans about this stupid thriller plot, which has been done a hundred times before and a hell of a lot better than here. In the sparse 80 minute running time we see plenty of the main character running around like a loon for 90% of the length, then we get the final bloody climax and BANG it's over. I was so engrossed I almost turned over in my sleep.One of these days they'll make an uncompromising dramatic film where they will possibly go all the way in explaining just what WOULD happen to a pretty white girl if she was captured in another country and forced into prostitution. Until then, we'll have to made do with this fantasy version of fat blokes in colourful shirts and impossibly beautiful models where they combine it with a cheap action movie script and end up with.. not much at all. BORING. Oh and next time, get a cast that can act, will you? 2/10