Slooooow plodding story.

Action is like stuntmen practicing their routines before shooting.

The characters are weakly portrayed and mismatched for the story.

I was looking for a mindless entertaining story and that is exactly what I got.

The negative comments by others about the script's leaden dialogue and wooden acting are generally smack on. The plot is quite familiar, having been done so many times. Sex traffickers screw up when one of the gals they snatch turns out to be the daughter of, or otherwise important to, one bad-ass dude who will take on the baddies, no matter how many there are.

Oleg Prudius will never beat out Liam Neeson for a variation on the Taken franchise, but he does have his own impressive "particular set of skills". His Yuri don't say much, but calmly does what heroic daddies gotta do in these flicks. Though born in the Ukraine, he went to college in the US on a sports scholarship, and has spent many years here. That indicates that Yuri's laconic style was a choice, rather than a lack of English fluency. When he's talking, it still ain't great. But the fight scenes, the hulking hero delivers plenty of the satisfying action low-budget mayhem seekers seek.

Perhaps the best feature is that this Ukrainian is kicking the asses of villains from many countries while his former countrymen are doing the same to Putin's invaders. If he's an example of their fighting forces, no wonder they're doing so much better than their foes expected.

I'm going to be straight up, a rare film I stopped ten minutes in. Even stinkers I tend to watch to the end. But in that time I got to discover I could barely understand the main actor, half of what I'd seen was a music video, which was the best production value and quality. Even the music video bikini-fest intro felt like a decade old played out cliché. The script was on the level of a porn as was the cinematography, the actresses with clothes on who actually spoke were of the same feel. And I can't say the men were better and the indoors scenes felt like the obligatory forced acting scene leading up to 'the down and dirty', cheap, creepy and awkward. The editing out of a line of dialogue with the wannabe businessman's mouth still flapping was my personal highlight.