But most of all, it's a love story, and to me that's the most important thing" - Mark Williams.
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An Open Road release."It's an action movie with suspense, car chases, shootings and explosions. MPAA Rating: PG-13 for strong violence, crude references and brief strong languageĬast: Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos and Robert Patrick.Ĭredits: Directed by Mark Williams, script by Steve Allrich, Mark Williams.
Sooner or later, he’s going to give us what Walsh and Donovan do here - the appearance of an actor showing up for a check and not even pretending otherwise. Like Walsh, we know he’s better than this.Īs for Neeson, who squeezes in the rare Euro or indie comedy or drama to remind us the talent and that’s still there, he’s fast approaching the point where we don’t know he’s better than this. He’s good in the action scene he’s hurled into, and befuddled looking the rest of the time. Never let’s us see her alarmed.ĭonovan is emasculated by giving his character a Shih Tzu he dotes on and takes to the office, etc. She’s read all the way to the end of the script. We look at her face and listen to her voice for some hint this extraordinary and extraordinarily violent turn of events will rattle her.
Walsh’s reactions to most everything this “good man” in her life does defies belief. The script is workmanlike, with the odd ridiculous moment on its way to the inevitable.Ī stand-out failing of “Honest Thief,” which has visceral shoot-outs and a novel car chase, is the supporting cast. Neeson always gives fair value in such roles, but the problem with a film like “Honest Thief” is you’ve got to forget the “Taken” movies and every variation of those he’s made in the past 15 years for any of this to feel fresh. Staying alive while Agent Nivens ( Jai Courtney, a fine villain) and Agent Hall ( Anthony Ramos) hunt him, and their unsuspecting boss (Jefferey Donovan of “Burn Notice” and “Fargo”) supervises the search will be trickiest of all. So Tom’s given up his cover and his cash and is on the lam anew in Boston, wanted for murdering a Federal agent. Robert Patrick is the honest agent who turns out to be the odd man out.
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Neeson plays Tom Carter, a “retired bank robber” who has let the love of a good woman ( Kate Walsh of “Grey’s Anatomy” and the Netflix series “Emily in Paris) make him want to “come clean” and pay his debt to society.īut the FBI agents he’s negotiating giving himself up to let their heads be turned by the big haul of cash involved. The only twists to this - little character quirks and the like - are just dopey and off-topic, the stuff to make an action fan wonder “What’s up with that?”
That’s another characteristic in Neeson’s “man of violence” movie dotage. Pretty much every other moment in “Honest Thief” is expected, too, alas. “Agent Nivens,” he growls, “Aahm comin’ fer Yoouuuu.”Īnd there it is, that moment we’ve anticipated after which we can relax, now that the Big Man from Eire has got THAT out of the way. Here’s the version in “Honest Thief,” delivered in a “not hiding me accent any longer” brogue. Fans of Liam Neeson’s late career revenge thrillers know to wait for that payoff line, which may vary in verbiage and accent, but never in meaning.
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