"First Daughter" is a standardized but competently made outdoors-based kidnapping thriller. Considering it's a TV production, it doesn't shy away from violence to the degree you might expect, has some decent explosions and stunts, a couple of vertiginous climbing and rafting scenes, etc. The story is not going to blow anyone's mind with its originality, but it serves its purpose for 93 minutes. The solidly built Mariel Hemingway makes a good, physical action heroine, though I would have preferred her to finish off the last bad guy by herself, instead of desperately needing outside assistance. This was followed three years later by "First Shot", a film so boring that I stopped watching it halfway through. Maybe I should give it another chance. **1/2 out of 4.
Review of First Daughter
