Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

craig-hopton Liam Neeson does a decent job as the moody retired detective Matthew Scudder who finds himself on the trail of the brutal murderers of the wife of a drug kingpin.It's a reasonably gripping movie. There's regular tension as Scudder puts himself at risk in graveyards, strange buildings, basements etc. The supporting cast all do a good job.But it's nothing special. The plot is boringly predictable. The identity of the murderers is revealed to the viewer early on (and Scudder figures it out himself not much later) and from then on it's a fairly pedestrian chase and fight between them and Scudder.There's also a strange lack of any major female characters. It's one of those movies where women are only represented as victims.An ok watch but not really one I'd recommend.

adonis98-743-186503 Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife. A Walk Among the Tombstones is one of those movies that a lot of people won't enjoy and i'm totally OK with that but there's a lot of good stuff about this movie for example the slow and really cool detective moments, the noir and dark vibe that it sells sometimes it makes you ask for more, Liam Neeson is doing a great job and he really fits the part well especially his past sometimes comes back to haunt him. Also the 2 men that play the killers also do a really good amount of job plus i liked the character of TJ and how he fit with the story. But if there was this whole mystery and detective mode for the first 2 acts well the 3rd one tried to become an action film with people getting killed very easily, fight sequences and a very weird ending to say the least. If the movie had stayed of what it was from the start i would have given it the perfect score but if any of you do actually see it just remember it's not an action movie it's a crime/thriller and drama kind of a film with a really great performance by Liam Neeson. (9/10)

justincward AWAtT keeps you guessing. Even if it's only,"Who, or what genre, was that a shout-out to?" or, "Did they make this up as they went along?" Matt Scudder (Neeson) is an ex-cop, a Philip Marlowe-esque, Mike Ehrmantraut-ish, Liam Neeson-ish, paid-up AA(A) member who does the odd private job since his Captain Beefheart days when it was whiskey for breakfast. The barman is shot as robbers strike; At that, Matt grabs his gat, two hoods go splat, and another never walks without a limp again.8 years later, he discusses Raymond Chandler with a black 14-year-old street kid in the library, and takes him for a vegeburger. WHOAH! I don't like where this is going. He forgets his promise to the librarian to clean up the toilets. What a rogue! A gangster's wife has been kidnapped. At this point, the scriptwriter was too, it would seem.The Goodies are Russian drug dealers, so y'know, only Liam Neeson will do. Being Irish, Liam trumps everything but English, and English is always trumped by American, so the Americans actually win without actually being rude to the Russians and at the same time being nice to the Irish (which annoys the English). Because even bystander-killing alcoholic US ex-cops are better than deviant sadists. I think I have that correct.A van is resprayed. by Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.There's a couple of women, who never meet: the blonde has duct tape over her mouth and gets dismembered, and the less neurotic brunette, of whom I remember little more than a surreal "Red Riding Hood" scene with rock music. The Feds turn up and the plot goes to pieces. There may be another female character who is ransomed from: - Chief Baddie Ming the Merciless, who could be construed as 'where the Russian from the Sopranos went', except he has a goatee beard and he's skinny. From one angle he looks like John Malkovich. The twist being that we all thought he was The Guy We Thought Was Chief Baddie's Sidekick until well over half way. What a character arc put through a EXOR gate would be like.Oh, and aforementioned magic black character kid. who is homeless at 14, has sickle disease, and draws superheroes. Doesn't get cured of either. He at least gets to fall asleep before the end, which is more than I did. Matt Scudder doesn't stay awake for the credits.In the end I was left guessing that 50p in a boot fair works out at 25p an hour to be kept not entertained, but guessing. Awake, basically. Which is cheaper than watching Jeopardy, and there are no ads, apart from the trailers at the beginning for more brainless, unimaginative, overproduced nonsense. I'll look out for Liam Neeson in, 'Awake!' The story of a a man who buys a movie studio and finds it was all a dream.

Robert J. Maxwell Liam Neeson is finally out of his "Taken" franchise and gets a chance to perform as a human being rather than just act. He's an unlicensed private detective who resigned from the NYPD after accidentally shooting and killing a little girl after drinking. He's since joined AA.He's hired by a civilized-sounding drug dealer whose wife was kidnapped. The dealer wants to know who they are, since he's paid the ransom and the kidnappers tortured and killed her anyway, cutting her up into little pieces and distributing them in trash bags here and there. Neeson digs into the case a little and finds that two or three men have been doing the same thing for some time -- not just serial killers, but genuine menaces to humanity.Neesom acquires a kind of acolyte, a black kid who has sickle cell anemia (don't worry; no bathos) and loves private eyes like Sam Spade. Neesom himself plays the role as subdued. Not subdued because he's not bothering to animate the character, but subdued in the sense that he seems like a perfectly normal, if wary, kind of guy. He's not the whirling dervish of the "Taken" movies at all. He can be coshed and beaten painfully and suffer from the beating for hours afterward. (Again, no bathos; this is part of his life.) No love interest, no spectacular shoot outs, nobody's head is wrenched off, no wisecracks. It's a tense and suspenseful movie about a good man trying to do something worthwhile and trying to cope with his weaknesses.Neesom can be a fine actor given the right role. He has an endearingly lumpy face and his nose begins in the middle of his forehead. It's well worth catching.