I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

Based on a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and directed by Pierre Morel the film stars Neeson playing a retired Central Intelligence Agency operative from their elite Special Activities Division who sets about tracking down his teenage daughter after Liam Neeson is kidnapped for sexual slavery while travelling in Europe. He recited the Van Morrison song "Coney Island" on the 1994 Van Morrison tribute album No Prima Donna: The Songs of Van Morrison. Qui-Gon's voice provided by Neeson would later be heard during a brief scene in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002).

Liam John Neeson OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor with British Irish and American citizenship. Neeson is known best for his roles in Schindler's List Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Michael Collins Taken Kinsey Batman Begins and Darkman.