Wednesday 11 May 2016

A Walk Among The Tombstones (2014) 8/10

Starring : Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Boyd Holbrook, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Brian ‘Astro’ Bradley
Director : Scott Frank
Running Time : 114 mins

After accidentally killing a child, police detective Matthew Scudder (Neeson) quits the force and decides to try to give up on drinking as he was drunk at the time of the accident. Many years later he is hired by a drug trafficker, Kenny Kristo (Stevens), to help find his missing wife but when she is killed Scudder investigates further and discovers a connection between the kidnappers and the DEA.

This was actually a pretty good thriller. When I realised that Liam Neeson was in it, I thought it might end up being similar to Taken or Run All Night, but this has its own individuality and its own quirks which make it very watchable and very interesting, though the little boy was a bit too much for my liking, as his sort of character has been done before and done better to boot.

You’ll like this if you liked : The November Man



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