Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson) has uprooted his young, Texan family to take up a post with an American corporation in a non-descript South East Asian country, with devastating consequences.

Little do they know that their new country of residence is in the early stages of a violent coup, and the rebel mob is out to execute any and all foreigners, especially Americans.

Jack’s face is plastered on a company banner in their hotel lobby, making Jack the prime target of the relentless mob.

Lake Bell gives a stand-out performance as Annie Dwyer, Wilson’s long-suffering wife, trying desperately to protect her two young daughters and get her family to safety.

This is an edge of your seat, action-packed film and certainly enjoyable, but it operates at a very surface level, from a purely Western viewpoint.

The locals are painted as barbaric, mindless murderers while the idealistic hero legitimately believes that he is there to “fix” the country’s water supply.

Pierce Brosnan is unimpressive as a mysterious British “tourist” who inserts himself into the Dwyers’ lives early on in the script and then disappears for ages, only to burst in to save them at an opportune moment.

A heart-racing Friday night flick, it gets a 7/10.