
The expatriate and widower Ben Logan has moved from New York to Antwerp with his estranged teenage daughter Amy Logan to work for the technology corporation Halgate Group. When he breaks a sophisticated security code from a device, he notes that its patent has no record in Halgate and he calls the attention of his boss Derek Kohler. Ben meets Amy and they do not go home; later Ben goes with Amy to his office and they find it completely empty. Further, all the records of his p... (Full plot summary below)
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The expatriate and widower Ben Logan has moved from New York to Antwerp with his estranged teenage daughter Amy Logan to work for the technology corporation Halgate Group. When he breaks a sophisticated security code from a device, he notes that its patent has no record in Halgate and he calls the attention of his boss Derek Kohler. Ben meets Amy and they do not go home; later Ben goes with Amy to his office and they find it completely empty. Further, all the records of his phone calls, e-mails, payslip and bank account have vanished. Out of the blue, a coworker abducts Ben and Amy in the bank but Ben kills him in self-defense. Ben finds a key from a locker in the Central Station and he finds photos of his daughter, himself and his coworkers. His further investigation shows that all the workers are dead in the morgue except Derek Kohler. Soon Ben discovers a huge conspiracy of Halgate Group relative to illegal arms sales to Africa with the involvement of rogue CIA agents. But Ben is in disgrace with the Agency and does not have any reliable contact to recur.
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| The PlaylistMark ZhuravsyErased starts out strong...but for the rest of the running time, we are watching Ben catch up with us, and that makes for uninteresting cinema no matter how kinetic the action. |
| Time Out LondonGuy LodgeDon’t tell Liam Neeson, but someone had the gall to make a violent Euro-thriller about a rampaging American dad without him. And not a bad one either. |
| Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerThe film seldom pushes beyond the bare-minimum dictates of the thriller, only rarely offering up a memorable action sequence. |
| Village VoiceChuck WilsonA thriller whose storytelling ingredients are so familiar that one could watch it with the sound off and still know what's going on. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDepending on your age and memory, you’ll recognize cinematic DNA from everything from "Three Days of the Condor" to the "Taken" and "Bourne" franchises in this tale of a father and daughter on the run from an evil conspiracy. |
| Total FilmPaul BradshawEckhart makes a decent Damon stand-in, but there’s nothing here than hasn’t been done (better) before. |
| The GuardianMike McCahillThis semi-efficient, Belgian-set timewaster fuses Taken with Unknown, and almost works. |
| Time OutEric HynesEckhart’s status as the most likable too-handsome man this side of Chris Isaak will endure long after this film is erased from memory — which starts immediately. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMost people can only watch the same movie so many times. But Philipp Stölzl is clearly hopeful that when you’re done with “Taken” (and “Taken 2”), you’ll want more of the same. Should that be the case, this undistinguished but decent knockoff is ready to satisfy. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriThe result: Characters we genuinely care about are lost in a movie that almost dissipates before our very eyes. |