This lively and unglamorous Polish action-thriller opens in the early hours of the morning with a lone woman single-handedly taking down a group of unpleasant young men with only her cans of beer and tidy fighting skills. She turns out to be a former special forces agent believed dead, and when her teenage son is kidnapped from his now-adopted family in a revenge move, she is quickly in pursuit with utter fearlessness and bone-crunching determination, using whatever comes to hand as weapons - stabbing a guy in the ears with carrots is a new one on me. Occasionally playing more like a good TV thriller, the film is for the most part snappily directed and it is propelled by a driving dub-inflected score. Agnieszka Grochowsca throws herself into the lead role with impressive abandon, and whilst some of the fights come across a little too carefully choreographed, this Mother's Day is a lively enough routine actioner.
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