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Sep 19, 2014 · A Walk Among the Tombstones. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Fans of the hardboiled detective, rejoice. Screenwriter-director Scott Frank and actor Liam Neeson, adapting the splendid work of crime novelist Lawrence Block, have brought a great one to the screen in high, bracing style.
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Sep 19, 2014 · Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson), formerly part of the NYPD, now works as an unlicensed private detective. His latest client is a drug trafficker (Dan Stevens) whose wife was kidnapped and brutally...
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Sep 19, 2014 · A Walk Among The Tombstones is a taut, gritty and overall stylish thriller, that is a rare brilliance in book to film adaptations. Liam Neeson plays a detective who gets a case to find out the killers of the client's wife, but slowly gets tangled with much more than he expected.
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- Scott Frank
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- Liam Neeson, Private Eye.
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By Max Nicholson
Posted: Sep 18, 2014 12:01 am
Adding to Liam Neeson's "badass hunting down bad guys" genre of movies, A Walk Among the Tombstones is about what you'd expect from the Taken star, whose "particular set of skills" may be starting to wear thin. But while Universal's crime thriller is mostly boilerplate stuff, the prospect of Neeson intimidating people for two hours hasn't quite lost its edge yet, especially given Tombstones' disturbing, neo-noir setting.
Based on Lawrence Block's novel of the same name and adapted for the screen by Scott Frank (Minority Report, The Lookout), the film follows an ex-cop named Matthew Scudder (Neeson), who's spent the last eight years of his life as an unlicensed PI. Reluctantly, Scudder agrees to help a drug trafficker (Dan Stevens) track down a pair of criminals who kidnapped and brutally murdered his wife. However, as Scudder digs deeper into his investigation, he learns this isn't the first time these men have committed this sort of crime... and it won't be the last.
To Scudder's credit, he's actually not the ruthless, cold-blooded killer Neeson's come to be known for in his recent work. Actually, he's kind of the opposite of that. For one, he prefers sleuthing over torture, and rarely falls back on brute strength to get the information he needs. I mean, sure, when push comes to shove, Scudder is someone you don't want to mess with, and there are still plenty moments where Neeson puts up his dukes. Heck, he even threatens one of his perpetrators over the phone, Taken-style, in order to save a kidnapped daughter (albeit not his own). Still, don't go into Tombstones expecting one of Neeson's typical beat-'em-ups.
On the contrary, Frank's crime drama is more of a thinker, and that's underlined by the fact that the movie takes place amid the Y2K scare of late-1999. As one of the killers points out as he flips through a New York rag, "People are afraid of all the wrong things." Unfortunately, the premillennial tension doesn't go much deeper than that one line, despite the onslaught of Y2K imagery. In fact, it hardly ties in to the story at all, which is a shame since it feels like it's building towards something much bigger than what's actually at play.
Scott Frank's A Walk Among the Tombstones features Liam Neeson in a role that's somewhat different from his other recent work in that he plays an emotionally detached private investigator. Here, his character relies more on his wits than his brawn and brings an old-school flair to his pre-millennial investigation. While the story is unexpectedly si...
- Max Nicholson
Sep 19, 2014 · A Walk Among the Tombstones: Directed by Scott Frank. With Liam Neeson, Maurice Compte, Patrick McDade, Luciano Acuna Jr.. Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Sep 17, 2014 · ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’: Film Review. Liam Neeson plays unlicensed private investigator Matt Scudder in this adaptation of one of Lawrence Block's best-selling mystery novels
