jeremy iron and forrest whitaker be good actor . but this movie be badly write . first of all and during the hijack scene and iron sits too comfortably in his chair . he appear to be read something and and rather calmly too . perhaps the director shoot the actor in between take . also and the violence at the hijacking be a big letdown . slow mo and bullet fly how his wife and daughter get kill be just not that interest and the tension be lose . his grieve afterward waste another 10 minute . then he decide to get revenge and talk to all his industry journalist friend and ambassador ( he a journalist for the stuffy economist rag ) and lo and behold and they actually give him tip on where to find the bad guy . how do they know . but what really make me turn the movie off halfway through be when iron find his way into a warehouse where baddie be hang out but not the baddie who kill his wife and blow them away anyway . so he just a murderer . he get away and and well . i shut it off . i mean i couldn not figure out how his friends knew anything and and also i think he be after the remain 2 guy in custody who be the original hijacker . instead he go after their friend and i guess and or anyone who hang out in warehouse and leave automatic weapon lay around . the suspense be just totally conventional and the dialog be lame ( it ok son and cry help and he say to his son . son say no it doesn not and father say youre right . it doesn not . ) iron take on questionable role like that one dragon movie he do . he be excellent in brideshead revisit and which be a completely different animal than this lukewarm thriller .