A Walk Among the Tombstones

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Rating 6 out of 10

I thought this movie looked interesting when I saw the trailer and how can you go wrong with Liam Neeson?  I did not know this at the time this movie is based on a series of books.  Neeson plays ex-NY cop turned private eye.  He's not licensed so he takes the jobs no one else wants.

He is called in by a drug dealer who when he paid the ransom on his kidnapped wife the REALLY bad guys killed her anyway.  He wants his own kind of justice.  Turns out the bad guys are targeting family members of drug dealers.  You know the bad guys are pretty sick when you feel sorry for drug dealers.

This sounds like a pretty high impact action movie you have come to expect from Neeson.  It's not.  This is a slow plodding movie with little action.  Out of the nearly two hour running time probably 30% is of Neeson walking from place to place.

The movie is also very brutal in a nasty twisted torturing women sort of way.  It creeped me out in parts.  They don't show the brutality, but it's implied enough to make your skin crawl.

I was mildly entertained yet could not recommend this movie.  I expected it to be better.