A Walk Among the Tombstones

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Faiz D One of Liam Neeson's best. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/13/25 Full Review mark g I have to admit, some of the choices Neeson had made around this time were questionable, so I didn't know what to expect. But boy was this one different. Make no mistake, dark as hell. This movie is not for the squeamish, many scenes are disturbing. But the direction is excellent and Neeson is on top of his game. Moreover, the two bad guys personify evil like few others in recent memory. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/24/25 Full Review Matthew D A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) is better than I remembered. One of the strongest Liam Neeson films and performances from him in the past decade. Dan Stevens, Boyd Holbrook, and David Harbour are excellent in their supporting roles. Scott Frank's dark neo-noir direction is ruthless with a truly bleak worldview. The detailed and nihilistic writing makes for an engaging mystery. Fair warning, the serial killers are very disturbing to watch. It holds up nicely. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/25 Full Review acsdoug D Superior Neeson fare. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/10/25 Full Review Pongo K Not too much action. A thriller. Not too sophisticated. I think you will like it, without getting too exited. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/09/24 Full Review John C Liam Neeson has enjoyed a renaissance lately, reinventing himself as an ‘elder statesman’ of action movies, what with the ‘Taken’ trilogy and ‘Non Stop.’ Therefore, I couldn’t help but go into ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ thinking that it was going to be another ‘blast-a-thon’ of gunplay and high-octane action. It wasn’t. I even – briefly – read a post on the internet concerning the film. It simply read ‘Totally dull.’ To be fair, I can see where they’re coming from. If you go into this film expecting something like Taken then you’re going to be left sorely disappointed. Luckily, when I watched it, I was obviously okay with something a little slower. Liam Neeson plays... well, basically the same badass character he keeps playing lately – you don’t really need to know his name. He could almost be the same guy in Taken. But, anyway, he’s an ex cop turned private detective who’s hired to investigate the kidnap and murder of a drug dealer’s wife. First of all there’s comparatively little action, despite quite an intense opening shootout, there’s not that much else to follow (besides the odd ‘roughing up’ of a few shady characters here and there. The story is mainly about Neeson’s investigation, which he does with hunches and leads, rather than guns and fists. Normally, I say that characters work best when they interact with others around them. Liam Neeson is definitely a ‘lone wolf’ here and I actually preferred him that way. However, the film-makers decided to make him ‘play off’ a young homeless kid he sort of befriends along the way. I felt that this was the one down point in the film. It wasn’t the young actor’s fault. He could definitely act, I just didn’t really believe a young homeless boy would be so into the things he was, i.e. health conscious and water-drinking to ‘flush out his system’ etc. But he’s comparatively a minor part of the two-hour film. So, if you’re in the mood for something a little slower than Neeson’s recent offerings then give it ago. Just think ‘cops and robbers’ rather than all out action. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/26/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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