Whether he's saving his too-young kids or taking revenge, Liam Neeson is back with another bad action vehicle. Our Retribution review:
Gangs of New YorkMeanwhile, Neeson’s heart and soul seems quite happily attached to making a certain kind of film, with one more set to debut at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. There’s enough variation in his filmography—albeit, with wildly varying quality—to lead one to believe that, with no known ties to the
scheme, perhaps he genuinely likes making these kinds of schlocky action pictures. That fondness, however, is not necessarily evident insees a worn, 71-year-old Neeson put on a passive American accent as a workaholic Big Businessman father who, along with his two teen children, is held hostage by a bomb planted in his car. It is immediately odd to see Neeson playing dad to two young actors who could more believably be his grandchildren.
In his unethical approach to his job, Matt Turner has upset someone along the way, becoming imprisoned in his own vehicle while driving his kids, Zack and Emily , to school. Turner receives a voice-altered call a la Jigsaw that someone wants to play a game with him: There’s a pressure-triggered bomb under his car seat that will go off if anyone in the car leaves and alters the weight of the vehicle.
In order to protect himself and his children—a convoluted way to ultimately redeem himself as an absent father and husband—Turner is forced to do the caller’s bidding, which essentially sets Turner up as the patsy mastermind behind a slew of other bombings and crimes as he drives around frantically somewhere in Germany. This implicates his associates, played by Modine and Arian Moayed, along with Turner’s wife, Heather .
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