It's all that stupid mom's fault

I wanted to pistol whip that mother so bad. What a massive c|unt.

Who the heck would allow a 17 year-old go overseas to follow a band around? Personally, the girl should have waited until she was legally an adult to go do stupid things like that. That's not worth signing over permission. Obviously the girl was allowed free reign to do whatever she wanted since the father was more or less not in the picture. That free reign bit her in the behind, though.

He should have stuck to his guns the first time around. He knew something was up, but he thought he was getting an 'in' to his teenage daughter's life by allowing her to go.

Perry: "You, stop multiplying!"

Lenny needed a good slap from Neeson several occasions.

When searching Kim's bedroom he should have rubbed it into the bitch's face about how his skills were now NEEDED!

Actually no, it was Amanda's fault for leading the kidnappers to their apartment and telling them which floor they were on and that they'd be alone, if she hadn't given him all that information then the movie would've been this.

Kim and Amanda go to Paris, travels around to U2 concerts, gets on a plane for home, roll credits please.

The movie would have been so much better if right after he killed the sheik, he would have slapped that lyin ass deceitful bitch to the floor and asked "do you have any idea how many men I've had to kill in the last 48 hours because of you?!" Then slapped her again. Then punched her mother in the mouth at the airport.

Normal fathers are not Liam Neelsen :P

A few other movies seem to have followed this cliche of leading man/father post-divorce trying to help his kids meanwhile demeaningly berated and verbally bashed by b*tchy ex-wife who has picked up a "superior" boyfriend/husband-to-be. Examples: The War of the Worlds (remake), The Weather Man, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012. In many (IMDB) cases male viewers want to "slap" her silly but the guy just sits there and takes it on the chin like a spineless pussy, even if he turns out to have been doing the right thing for his estranged kids. "Taken" seems a classic example. The ex-wife was arrogant and condescending, having landed a rich guy who gives ponies for birthday presents, and ignorant when it came to sending their under-age attractive daughter on a flighty Eurotrip. The mother definitely needed a "slap" or at least a wakeup call, and was kind of lame even when the daughter was returned safely due to Dad's awesome skills. Small hug, now you can get a taxi home.

Stop talking about it like its a real film! ITS NOT! She is not a real character at all. There is nobody on earth like her. And even the few that are annoying biatches, they at least have a back story that makes them how they are. This film just didn't even bother with anything. They introduce this insane kunt of an ex wife with no explanation at all. It was only like 20 minutes in to the film when she says some cliche "your job was more important" or whatever and you realise, oh yeah.. they are doing the over worked male thing. But still, *beep*, at least give us some kind of reason to believe that.

It's like a school play. A bunch of 12 year olds who want to be in the movie business got together and decided that there needs to be some badass dude who has "military training and *beep* and is now a "bodyguard for famous singers or whatever" and the wife is "pissed off about him not being around enough or whatever". And they just threw it all together in 10 minutes. What a total piece of crap. Every single part of it was below amateurish. The word amateurish gives such a bad feeling, but actually, at least amateurs have spent some time studying stuff. They have been beginners and gone though all the "beginners guide to moviez" and "how to write a script in 24 hours" and whatnot. Amateurs are least at an amateur standard. Whoever wrote this film was just taking the piss.

Well, the father was being a total idiot... Lots of people go to France without being abducted and sold into the sex trade. In fact France on the whole is safer than the US. The fact that he turned out to be right regarding the plot just simply meant that his character apparently knew about the unlikely plot ahead of time. Must have read the ridiculous script, LOL.

Note that there is an international human trafficking trade, but its mostly girls from poor countries that are exploited... not tourists from rich countries.

From what I've heard a man is more at risk from the sex trade in Paris. Apparently there's a common scam where a flirtatious lady will invite a man into a back alley bar for a drink, give him a beer, then charge him 600 Euros or even more (typically without even getting sex). I've heard a number of stories about this scam.

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RIGOLETTO: I'm denied that common human right, to weep.