Dexter (Mark O'Neal) is a former special ops person who is now engaged to Lenka (Petra Bryant) a woman of Russian (?) origin. They have a pre-honeymoon in Turkey where she is abducted. The police treat Dexter as a murder suspect. Much of the film is told in flashbacks.
Yes, this is another "Taken" film as Dexter uses his skills to find his future bride. Mark O'Neal is not convincing in his role. Even Simon Phillips, who I typically love, had trouble delivering his lines convincingly. The script didn't seem tight and lacked the promise of the plot. The ending was a major WTF with a twist whose clues were sparse and ambiguous. It lacks a decent scene to make the film.
Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex. Very brief nudity (Anais Alvarado?)
The Disappearance of Lenka Wood
2014
Action / Crime
The Disappearance of Lenka Wood
2014
Action / Crime
Plot summary
A woman is kidnapped on her honeymoon and her ex-soldier husband endeavors to free her. A kidnap thriller set in New York and Turkey.
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The True Story of War and Revenge
"Disappearane of Lenka Wood" Mark O'Neal as intel recon soldier Dexter was not typical Segal slash and burn! Unusual movie explaining in detail the uncertainty and constant questions of how war can damage both sides as in the physical and mental sense. Well crafted and directed, good cinema work with a minimum of talk, talk, talk! Tom Turner coordinated dialogue with Simon Philips, producer and created a first rate movie relying on a steady stream of flashback cuts. Akbar Kurtha came off as a really good bad guy on one hell'va revenge mission, which was explained last minute of movie. Damn good job too.
The Disappearance Of Lenka Wood
If you like action, you may like this film, the hero - or is he? - is a US soldier/special agent who could give James Bond and Arnold Schwazenegger a run for their money and then some. He and his future wife decide to take their honeymoon before tying the knot, and she chooses Turkey where she is abducted while he finds himself accused of her murder.
Apart from the brutality of the police - three of whom are no match for him - Turkey sounds like a fun place to live. Even a humble barman has a palatial home, everybody speaks English, and there is a nice quiet toilet in the discotheque where you can torture and murder a police gopher, after you've drowned the barman in his swimming pool.
There is a twist in the final scene that gives the game away, this is not so much an action film as a political statement, but the long, circuitous route taken to make it beggars belief.