10 Recent Movies That Were HUGE Ripoffs

10. Retribution

Liam Neeson's most recent action thriller romp Retribution - itself a remake of a Spanish-French film of the same name - stars him as a man who ends up trapped in his car after he learns that his seat has been rigged with a bomb, which will explode if he attempts to exit the vehicle.

Gee, doesn't that sound a little familiar?

Yep, it's basically a low-budget riff on action classic Speed, replacing a bus and dozens of extras with a Mercedes SUV and... Liam Neeson and his two children, who are left perilously hanging out in the back seats.

Sure, there's the subtle but important difference that Neeson's car isn't primed to blow if the speed drops below 50mph, but the basic beats of the story - of a man being held hostage inside a vehicle by a terrorist bomber - are fundamentally the same, with a dash of Joel Schumacher's terrifically confined thriller Phone Booth thrown in for good measure.

As rip-offs go it's not terrible conceptually, but narratively never manages to get out of first gear. Seriously, just go watch Speed again instead.