Never Let Go (2015) – Howard J. Ford.

New mum Lisa(Angela Dixon) has her recuperative break in scenic Morocco shattered by the abduction of newborn baby Sophie, enduring a whirlwind of rapidly escalating misfortunes, accused of murder, hunted by the police, she finally becomes aware that nefarious agencies are at play hindering her heroic search for the missing child. Never Let Go is a slick, frequently kinetic, altogether credible female-led iteration of the much-imitated Taken, while modestly budgeted, able helmsman Howard J. Ford adroitly delivers an endorphin rush of giddily propulsive forward motion. The performances are solid, bejewelled by its exotic backdrop, with staccato bursts of dynamic action, and featuring a physically commanding presence from a breathlessly locomotive Angela Dixon, who is quite literally one especially bad ass mother! Raising the bar for apocalyptic zombie horror, co-director of acclaimed The Dead and The Dead 2 proves himself to be no slouch when it comes to orchestrating gutsy DTV action, engendering a dizzying urgency to the increasingly desperate plight of our resolute, fleet-footed, specially-skilled martial arts matriarch! While others may not share my conviction, the adrenaline-soaked Never Let Go provides compelling evidence of an anguished mother's primal instinct to protect her infant, no matter how severe the consequences!