Simon West’s lumbering action thriller, which reunites the Con Air director with grizzled leading man Nicolas Cage, intends to pickpocket 95 precious minutes of your life.
Resist at all costs because Stolen is a bore.
Following the lead of the hugely successful Taken, West’s film hangs its flimsy premise on the daredevil antics of a gung-ho father who will do anything to rescue his kidnapped daughter.
Unfortunately, Cage is no substitute for Liam Neeson, wheezing and puffing through numerous action sequences, including a high-stakes game of cat and mouse played out during New Orleans carnival season.
The party atmosphere doesn’t filter off the screen and into the cinema auditorium.
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