Actors: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens,
David Harbour, Boyd Holbrook, Ólafur
Darri Ólafsson, Brian "Astro" Bradley
Rating: 8 out of 10, The next in Liam Neeson’s middle
aged renaissance of action parts. He
plays an alcoholic ex-NYC cop who is drawn into the search for a pair of serial
killers stalking the high end of the city’s drug traffickers. This is an
interesting movie that doesn’t fall into the usual Hollywood trap of making
everything about the action. It takes a
withering look at the lives of the people involved and Neeson’s search for his
own humanity. He takes a young homeless
African-American boy under his wing while trying to solve the ongoing series of
murders. The movie takes place in 1999
which is kind of scary because I get the impression the movie makers consider
that a long time ago. I truly enjoyed
this movie on all levels as all the flawed characters and two really spooky
villains hurtle towards the inevitable
confrontation. I love reading detective
novels set in New York City and watching this was like reading one – really
fast.
MVP:
Neeson understatingly awesome as the flawed hero Matthew Scudder
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