Seriously guys?

If you look at the crew listing, Luc Besson has his name attached. But he isn't entirely responsible for this trash. He's not the director. That's Pierre Morel. You can see just by his credentials that he is very good at framing an action sequence (Transporter, Unleashed), but I mean come on. He directed Taken. That alone should tell you he's clueless with beating emotion into actors.
But he didn't write the screenplay either. He had an IDEA. That was taken and reformed by Adi Hasak. Based on his credentials, he's...

Well, he's no one. And probably no one for a reason. I've seen a small handful of Besson's films (Fifth Element, Angel-A, Leon) but his style is so STRONG. You know you're watching a Besson movie. And when you're watching this, you can see Besson's work. Every time a man was shot or a car was driven, that had Besson stamped all over it. But the dialogue was not his, at all. The exposition was too heavy, not to mention that the characters seemed to lack any particular insight. Rather I should say, the insight that they delivered was delivered, poorly.

The thing that Besson, Shyamalan and Tarantino all share is that they stick to type. Besson's just the only one who's been around long enough to occasionally try something off the track (like Big Blue, or even Angel-A is off track for him). I'm BAFFLED as to how many people are outright blaming Besson for this disgusting movie. I'm just saying that if you look hard enough, you can see what they took from him and what they created off the back of their own 'imaginations'.