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Film Review: Liam Neeson in Forgettable ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’
CHICAGO – Liam Neeson still looks good being a badass., but “A Walk Among The Tombstones” is a vehicle unworthy of his particular set of skills. It’s not a tightly constructed thriller like “Non-Stop,” and it lacks the sheer over-the-top ludicrousness of “Taken 2.” This is largely a by-the-numbers jalopy that can best be called forgettable.
Rating: 2.0/5.0 |
I can’t fault the premise, though. Neeson stars as Matt Scudder, an unlicensed private dick and former NYPD cop who now operates just on the outskirts of the law. The film opens in the early 90s with Neeson sporting a wig and goatee that look like they came from a Halloween shop. After a shootout with stickup artists in a bar left a civilian casualty, Neeson quits the force. Now he helps those types of characters who would rather not have regular cops sniffing around their affairs.
Flash forward to 1999 (for seemingly no other reason than to display a little nostalgia trip back to Y2K paranoia). He’s hired by a drug trafficker named Kenny portrayed by Dan Stevens, who is apparently cornering the market on good looking, smirking creeps in Hollywood these days. His wife was kidnapped, he paid the ransom, and her kidnappers returned her in pieces. Now he wants Neeson to track them down.
Liam Neeson Strikes a Familiar Pose in ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’
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