10s Movie Review - A Walk Among the Tombstones

Director: Scott Frank
Genre: Crime/ Thriller/ Drama
Runtime: 114 minutes
Year: 2014
Starring: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, Boyd Holbrook, David Harbour, Adam David Thompson, Mark Consuelos
 
Description: Private investigator Matthew Scudder (Liam Neeson) is hired by a drug kingpin (Dan Stevens) to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

Review: In recent years you can usually guess what you get when you’re watching a Liam Neeson movie. Since the success of “Taken” ins 2008, the Irish actor has regularly been casted as the old hand in the business, who hasn’t yet forgotten to use his trades or other deadly weapons. It’s not very surprising anymore, but convincing it still is.
Neeson is also the main reason why the crime thriller “A Walk Among the Tombstones” remains entertaining. It doesn’t leave you on the edge of your seat, but it’s entertaining enough to keep you attention the full runtime.
The opening is promising. In 1991 New York, we see Matthew Scudder having breakfast in a restaurant, when he’s brutally disturb by a group of robbers. An explosion of violence follows. The film jumps eight years ahead. Matt Scudder has now left the police force and started out as a private investigator. His conscience starts to gnaw when Kenny Kristo, a drug dealer, asks for his help. The dealer can’t turn to the police, but he wants revenge. He paid a lot of money to get his kidnapped wife back, but found her in the trunk of an abandoned car chopped up into pieces.
Eventually Scudder decides to help, so he starts an investigation. And the men responsible for the death of Kenny’s wife have done it before. Scudder digs into the dark past of the gloomy city.
“A Walk Among the Tombstones” is a solid crime thriller, with a changing pace. The setting is great, the performance by Neeson is as well. The film goes on a bit too long, but overall it’s a movie worth checking out.

Rating: 3 / 5