Movie of the Week

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Summary:

The seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father, the retired agent Bryan Mills that left the secret service to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart; she convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with the stranger Peter and Amanda tells to him that they are alone in Paris. When Bryan succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells that criminals have just break in the spot and they are kidnapped by an Albanese gang of human trafficking. Bryan promises in the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter and immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and chase the criminals.

(Taken from IMDB.com)

This movie is CRAZY. Like, I went into it thinkin, "this is going to be lame, i'm not even gonna like it." I WAS WRONG!!! Starts off kinda slow, but so do most movies right? Gotta build a backstory somehow. But about 15 minutes into it, Agent Mills goes Matrix on some dude at a concert and then the movie just smashes. From that point until the very end of the movie there were at LEAST six times where i stood up and said "DAAAAAAYUUUUUMMMM." Pardon my French on that one. SPEAKING of French, I recommend all you lovely young ladies avoid Paris. Watch the flick and you'll understand.

Storyline- Storyline was pretty standard for a CIA thriller, with certain creative aspects. Lots of ball busting fight scenes and gunplay.

Acting- The acting was pretty good. One girl couldn't act to save her life....and didn't live very long

Intelligence- This movie was SMART, dude did some things that made me sit back and go..."I never would have thought of that"...that's an achievement considering all the Bourne's and other kinds of movies like this that I've seen

Creativity- See Storyline and Intelligence

Brutality- Okay, Bryan Mills is a stone cold KILLER. He is not to be messed with for real! If he was to fight Jason Bourne or James Bond, he'd murder them in like 2.5 seconds.

OVERALL GRADE: A-