I thought I already wrote this review...yet it mysteriously vanished from my computer!
The Story:
Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) is living in Belgium, doing security work for a firm. He's brought along his daughter, Amy (Liana Liberato). The two are dysfunctional at best, as she resents having to leave her life in America to live with her dad. Of course, she doesn't realize that her dad has some secrets up his sleeve that will reveal his past in the CIA. Of course, when Ben stumbles upon what his employers are up to quite by accident, they erase his identity and send the assassins in to clean up the job. Ben's going to have to save himself and his daughter in a foreign land.
Piece of cake.
Meh.
It's nothing you haven't seen before (Bourne... Taken...) and Eckhart is a serviceable leading man, who is also very believable as a securities expert who is also part deadly assassin when needed.
But the daughter... she is annoying and just drags the film down.
The idea of the film is solid enough, heck, when they did it years ago with The Net starring Sandra Bullock, it was quite enjoyable.
When the Big Bad Agency erases your identity and makes life difficult, that's a pretty scary story already.
We don't really need an angsty whiney teenager pouting about why her dad knows how to kill people.
Gee kid, I just saved your life, you're welcome...
: /
Now available to stream instantly on Netflix as of this writing.
Final Grade: C
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Serviceable movie, but nothing I'm in any need to see again.
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