Five friends, headlined by Melissa George, go on a mountain climbing trip to northern Scotland. While there they stumble upon and rescue a young Croatian girl who they find kept in a plywood box with an air pipe buried just below ground. After recovering the girl the group splits in two, with the most experienced climbers, Ms. George among them, taking the most direct rout to a nearby town to get help, with the other three and the girl going the longer but less dangerous way, or so they think. George's friend's rope is cut on a difficult cliff and he falls to his death, Melissa survives and is now fully aware that the young girls captors are after them, she races to rejoin the other group and arrives just in time to see one of her other friends shot and killed. The survivors flee together, tracked by two very determined kidnappers. You see the little girl is the child of a wealthy Croatian war criminal, that the villains are (unwisely) attempting to hold for ransom. But no girl, no ransom, so you see how it follows. The Croatian war criminal meanwhile has hired a group of professional kidnapping negotiators/rescuers, who are now of course pursuing the girl as well. Gradually members of each group are picked off as we head to a final confrontation in the town of Inverness during a local Celtic festival.
A pretty solid action/chase movie, Melissa George is one of the few actresses today who is really credible in a film like this. The rest of the supporting cast is adequate. Some nice shoots of the Scottish Highlands throughout, a refreshingly unique setting for a film of this type. **1/2
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