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18/02/2008 Action, Thriller 1h 34m
74
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They took his daughter. He'll take their lives.

Overview

Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.

  1. Pierre Morel

    Director

  2. Luc Besson

    Writer

  3. Robert Mark Kamen

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Liam Neeson

    Bryan Mills

  2. Maggie Grace

    Kim Mills

  3. Famke Janssen

    Lenore St. John

  4. Olivier Rabourdin

    Jean-Claude Pitrel

  5. Katie Cassidy

    Amanda

  6. Nicolas Giraud

    Peter

  7. Leland Orser

    Sam Gilroy

  8. Jon Gries

    Mark Casey

  9. Holly Valance

    Sheerah

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2020-06-11
Your arrogance offends me.

It is proof positive that you can still have a basic and formulaic genre piece and the multiplex crowd will forgive it the sins of film making. For here we have a revenge thriller that is over reliant on a ream of contrivances? The kind that people scoff at when horror pictures not wanting to be serious get screamed down for?. There is also some pretty poor acting performances on show, the usually reliable Famke Jansen looks lost when asked to show emotion, Maggie Grace needs to go back to acting school, whilst some of the French actors on show give French actors ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$25,000,000.00

Revenue
$226,830,568.00

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