Much better than what critics tell you. I love it and it kept me on the edge of my seat. Of curse it's fantasy but it takes you into the plot and keeps your attention throughout.

Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson) moves his family to a Southeast Asian nation (filmed in Thailand). He is an engineer for Cardiff, a company constructing the new water works. He meets Hammond (Pierce Brosnon) an ex-pat who drinks and causes civil unrest with his bad karaoke. The family is literally caught in the middle of a revolution, one where all foreigners must die. Jack and his family play hide and run for 90 minutes.You can feel the intensity in the film during the roof scene which is depicted on the film poster, DVD cover and is in all the trailers. The rest of the movie is anti-climatic by comparison. Pierce Brosnon does disappear from the film for awhile, but returns to give us "the speech" about third world countries, (IMF) debt, foreign interests, and economic enslavement. You know, the terrorists are really the good guys speech.The hide and seek part went long. In fact after the roof scene, I couldn't wait for the conclusion. Owen Wilson would not have been my first choice for the role. He didn't generate any excitement.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Near rape. Pierce Bronson assaults our ears with karaoke.

What makes this movie great is the factor that it keeps you hooked from the very second it starts. No irrelevant details or background. It takes you striaghaway to the story. The story revolves around an American couple and their two daughters who travel to an unnamed Southwest Asian country. The country is facing terrorism by a group of rebels and and nobody's safe especially the foreigners. The movies shows the family's escape from all that chaos while there is "no escape". Overall the movie is good and keeps you on the edge of your seat with a few cliches. Worth watching.

This movie was much better than I expected it to be. The movie is full of action, drama, and heart-felt pain in which the characters experiences. After viewing this movie, I am going to be careful where I travel. Many people in other countries hate Americans, the British, and Europeans for that matter, because of the way their land, natural resources, and water has been ravaged. Americans, the British, etc. come over into a country and take over, not allowing the natives any say. The Europeans came over to the, now-called America lands, and brutally attacked the natives and took the land. Historically, man has been pillaging one another's lands for centuries. Will we ever learn to share the natural resources? I guess not, especially when we view the ultra-wealthy upper one percent who has completely taken over the United States. Shame. But good movie.