I saw this based on the very smart clip used in the TV commercial. Liam Neeson was such a cool customer with such serious resolve it was bone chilling. Great hook. The script gets thru the background needed and beginning of the movie very economically. The villians are some of the nastiest on the screen ever. And dude takes no prisoners. Don't know how many windpipes he broke and wasn't he efficient about it. I enjoyed it but I had to laugh at the end when he and his daughter arrived home on a commercial jet. I suppose we are supposed to think that his civil servant friend whose wife he wounded swept it under the rug. I guess that's plausible but what was the need? Didn't he have a private jet at his disposal? I loved that scene in the end where the wealthy heavy has a knife at LN daughter's throat. As he started to speak, Neeson plugged him. Noticed that in Miami Vice, too, where the female agent (and wasn't she dynamite in a compact role) asked a perp a question to create a pause and then immediately fired. Seemed like a very good tactic to me. And lucky it was for LN that he guessed the layout of the construction site so very well and the perps were such terrible shots. Sometimes Hollywood gives us more than we need to maintain tension. Very satisfying movie, tho, all in all.
