A heavily-pregnant drugs informant Jennifer Lopez finds herself under attack at a supposed FBI safe house at the lively start of the movie, and twelve years later she is forced out of hiding to protect the daughter she was forced to give up. As the action moves to Cuba in the search for the kidnapped daughter, the film basically turns into a female-led Taken, and on return to home turf - here the forbidding but picturesque Alaskan wilderness - it focuses more on the fractured mother-daughter relationship as the drugs lord homes in on his prey. Grindingly generic and saddled with uninspired dialogue plus oddly-used and inconsistent music, the scant action/chase sequences are occasionally snappily edited, but in general The Mother is a rather simplistic, downbeat and dour action-thriller led by a weary-sounding Lopez that struggles to maintain interest beyond the first half-hour.
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