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by Rorschach » Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:34 pm
Saw The Lincoln Lawyer last night, that wasn't bad nef had Matthew McConaughey in it.
Saw A Walk Among the Tombstones today... 7/10 Liam Neeson. Much more realistic than the "Taken" movies, might even have sequels.
Like Tom Cruise's, Jack Reacher, (that I quite liked actually, even given the obvious physical shortcomings)... Liam Neeson plays Matt Scudder another character from a series of successful novels. This time Lawrence Block's bestselling series of mysteries.
Set in NY 1999, "A Walk" could have been a relentlessly voyeuristic, study in over the top gratuitous violence. To be sure, there is violence and it is ultimately over the top, but we never really see it, or have our senses and sensibility assaulted by it. Then again, I might just be jaded.
Scudder is an ex-NY cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator. He is also a recovering alcoholic, whose choices tend to blur the boundaries when it comes to right and wrong, legal and illegal. In "A Walk" Scudder eventually and reluctantly, agrees to help a friend's brother... a heroin trafficker named Kenny (Dan Stevens). He wants Scudder to find and deliver the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife. Even after he paid them the $400,000 ransom.
It turns out that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of crime... and it seems fairly certain that, it will not be the last.
The movie is directed by Scott Frank who has also written many screenplays, such as; Minority Report and The Wolverine. He also wrote this... He does a good job keeping the atmosphere and suspense going throughout the movie. Although I'm not sure why we had to have the token "black street kid" TJ (Brian Bradley) much of whose dialogue, was largely unintelligible to me. But that aside everyone does a creditable job. Even the pigeon keeper.
7/10 even if Liam seems to be getting typecast these days.
DOLT - A person who is stupid and entirely tedious at the same time, like bwian. Oblivious to their own mental incapacity. On IGNORE - Warrior, mellie, Nom De Plume, FLEKTARD
