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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It is a very good movie. Compared to the latest Bourne movie which is a similar genre it is compelling and fast paced. Jason Bourne should have been good but it was not but this one will not disappoint. Acting and plot are both very good. It moves along well pulling the viewer with it through the exciting scenes and story. The tension between father and daughter and their struggles to cement a relationship adds a further dimension to the movie. The daughter does not know her father at the beginning and we watch as she comes to terms with who and what he is. For his part, he has to learn how to be a father and he shows this in his own way when he protects her from the dangers that are a part of his world or rather his previous life as a CIA agent. There are the usual chases and fights pertaining to this genre as well as the villains and semi villains. But the hero is the Dad who comes through for his daughter. The ending is also satisfying leaving the audience fulfilled. I give it at least 8 out of 10 and recommend it to anyone who likes action movies about CIA or people fighting against the odds to free themselves.

The daughter in this movie makes it almost impossible to watch. Such terrible acting and the character is both stupid and whiny. This could have been a decent movie (not that the plot makes a lot of sense), but wow I will never watch another movie with this actress in it.Eckhart is always good to watch and he does a good job of acting. His character does a good job of not strangling his own daughter for her stupidity and incessant whining.Lot of other plot holes and things that don't make a lot of sense. No explanation of why if the "bad guy" knew they were going to kill everybody involved that he would allow one of his agents to hire a CIA black ops agent. Plus the whole "let's be PC" thing with the boyfriend for the girl is just annoying.

I randomly found this on Netflix. The Expatriate is actually quite a decent film! There are a lot of moments from the Taken series but you never at any point hated the daughter. She was so annoying which actually frustrated me, however if you can ignore that I will quickly go through 3 pros and 3 cons. PROS: High level of action, Very exciting, Well acted.CONS: Reminded me too much of Jason Bourne, Story was nothing we haven't seen before, Storyline was very predictable.In conclusion it's well worth watching if you just want a bit of action.

I couldn't work out why Jean Reno wasn't credited in the cast. I would have staked my mortgage on it, but of course it's not Jean Reno but his dopplebanger Eric Godon. My god do they look and act alike, even the build is similar. - That's all I really wanted to say, but I have to fill a bit of space to get this past the censors. 7 out of 10 for me. The script is similar to quite a few movies where whole departments get wiped out except for our hero who goes it alone to reveal corruption at the highest levels blah blah blah. I liked the idea of his daughter being the sidekick and the way he has to spill the beans to her about his past. Her naivety irritated me at first, but also saved his bacon a couple of times. Of course Olga is hot and a real pleasure on the eyes. Lots of holes in the script of course, like cooking up all that plastic explosive in someone's kitchen. And that stuffs heavy, so the exec carrying the briefcase would have suspected something.