Jack & Beth (Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen of "Sideways") live an idyllic life in Seattle, in a home she designed, which has a killer view of Puget Sound. They have two children, a boy eight, and a 14-year-old daughter with the prerequisite bad attitude. Their lives change when a gang led by Bill (Paul Bettany of "A Beautiful Mind") kidnaps Beth and the kids. They will be killed unless Jack, the VP of Security at Landrock Pacific Bank, transfers $100 million to an offshore bank account.

Not only is Bill, a great villain, one step ahead of Jack and Beth as they try to outsmart him, his plan is so ingenious that he’s framed Jack for the crime without any trace that a third party ever existed.

Close calls, hi-tech wizardry and computer manipulation, with a couple of interesting twists, buoy the all too familiar plot along until Jack and Beth save the day.

For moviegoers with a recollection of Mel Gibson’s "Ransom" and "Hostage" with Bruce Willis, there is nothing new here with respect to the story and character development. It’s a good movie, just nothing we haven’t seen before. Add in Jodi Foster’s knowledge of the airplane in "Flight Plan" as compared to Beth’s knowledge of the house and you are definitely in "been there seen that" territory.

However, if you are a Harrison Ford fan, looking for him to return to the drama of Tom Clancy’s "Patriot Games," you must see the film before it comes out on DVD. It more than qualifies as good solid entertainment.