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Save for the BBC and a scant few shows (Including Cunk on Anything,) British humor TV is, well, just not funny. I tried hard to get into it, but simply failed. It's like the worst parts of Monty Python...that go on forever.

Again: Save for the BBC and a scant few shows (Including Cunk on Anything,) British humor TV is, well, just not funny. I tried hard to get into it, but simply failed. It's like the worst parts of Monty Python...that go on forever.

You have been warned.

Typical lazy action movie with all of the usual shortcuts. Walkie-talkies are NOT full duplex, so you can't cut the other speaker off by simply opening your pie hole and talking louder. Everyone knows that unconscious bad guys with nearby guns...having just tried to kill you and everyone you love...should be left alone to "wake up" and try again. Step on their heads to be sure. Duh! Nobody who doesn't know how to fly a helicopter could take off in one. Period. Nobody, not even Stephen Hawking, could hack a cell phone into an encrypted global satellite like from the antenna tower. And no American president would EVER wear porn-star fake eyelashes. Wouldn't happen. These, and many more unnecessary and impossible shortcuts, ruined a movie that could have been so much better. And at least one of the kids should have been taken out just to make up for their insolent behavior...

You have been warned.

Wow. Every cliche under the sun -- times 10 -- and multiple plot holes large enough to hold the Titanic. I thought Frank Grillo could act (what was that movie again?)...but after seeing this I may have been wrong. And Rhona Mitra -- sweet sexy Rhona Mitra -- she should fire her agent. Stunningly bad.

It's not even worth detailing the many specific shortfalls, cuz they're all terrible. If you watch this -- and I don;t recommend that you do -- keep your finger poised on the fast-forward button. You'll be scrubbing forward looking for a redeeming scene...but you won't find one. Not even one.

You have been warned.