Mina (Sofia Black-D’Elia from Gossip Girl and Project Almanac) is just another sulky, slightly entitled American-born undergrad at Oxford, when her home is invaded by men trying to kidnap her, who end up killing her parents in the process. Turns out she’s actually the daughter of an Islamic warlord (Philip Arditti) mum had a fling with back in more innocent days – and he wants his little girl back. James Frain plays a bodyguard hired by MI6 to protect her. Co-writer-director-editor Vicky Jewson’s latest is at least more professionally assembled than her previous, the truly atrocious Lady Godiva, but it’s still hokey, tacky, borderline racist, and fabulously unconvincing. You can respect that it was made for a fraction of the cost of the average, similarly politically superficial American action-thriller, but that doesn’t make the failure any more noble. Malte Rosenfeld’s nicely graded cinematography is a single redeeming feature.
