A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
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Critic Consensus: A Walk Among the Tombstones doesn't entirely transcend its genre clichés, but it does offer Liam Neeson one of his more compelling roles in recent memory, and that's often enough.
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Based on Lawrence Block's bestselling series of mystery novels, A Walk among the Tombstones stars Liam Neeson as Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker (Dan Stevens) hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime...nor will it be the last. … More
| Rating: | R (for strong violence, disturbing images, language and brief nudity) |
| Genre: | Drama, Action & Adventure |
| Directed By: | Scott Frank |
| Written By: | Scott Frank |
| In Theaters: | Sep 19, 2014 Wide |
| On DVD: | Jan 13, 2015 |
| Runtime: |
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All Critics (147) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (96) | Rotten (51) | DVD (1)
Frank's film is much more of a noir outing than a straight action feature, and Neeson slips right into the tone and feel of the hard-boiled detective offering.
As a throwback to a type of nasty, ugly crime film of yesteryear, A Walk Among the Tombstones cleans up.
As nauseating as the film's inventive sadisms can be, Frank succeeds far more in the details than in the larger picture that tries to relate this world to ours.
A slick, ugly and brutal crime thriller set in NYC, in 1999.
The first great American film of the new season.
There's a doomy grandiosity befitting the title, and when violence inevitably occurs it is something not to be cheered, but mourned.
Audience Reviews for A Walk Among the Tombstones
A forgettable noir concerning a veteran, beat-up detective (Liam Neeson) who takes on a case of a missing woman in New York City for a wealthy drug kingpin. While Neeson is his regular outstanding self, the rest of the supporting cast is desperately lacking. Overall, this movie just feels like an extended version of a "Law and Order" episode, due to its relentlessly dour and dark subject matter and cold, calculated plot line. Unfortunately, this is just a very predictable movie that does not offer a lot of surprises, and that is why it is completely missable.
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Meh. Not a bad film, just so solidly clichéd. Psychopaths, ransoms, stand-offs, damsels in distress, age-weary cops with young partners, you name it... they even had to set it in the late 90s just so they could imitate the thrillers made back then.
Super Reviewer
A conventional and unsurprising crime thriller that, taking place in a pre-9/11 NYC, seems dated like a revival of the TV series Millennium, and although the cinematography is great, even the juxtaposition of freeze-framed action with a voice-over of the 12 steps of AA feels bland and arbitrary.
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