A precise action story that doesn’t become action-tedious. And while you don’t really like his wife, and you think his daughter is not much more sympathetic, Neeson’s character is definitively likable. After the obligatory setup, his character leads us through a staggeringly simple – and engaging -- journey of brutality and violence that is purely motivated and uncomplicated. He lives up to his “specific set of skills” that his character boasts of in the trailer. He is clever, forceful, and not since Dirty Harry, is a character we wish we could be given the same circumstance. Question is, why hasn’t Liam Neeson been making this kind of movie the last three + years? Where has he been, exactly? After all, this isn’t just any actor (how soon we forget). This is Oskar Schindler. This is Michael Collins. This is Robb Roy. (Okay, so this is even Kinsey.) So what’s he been doing? Sure the short appearances and ultimate death scenes in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN and BATMAN BEGINS. But beyond that? Video game voices. Believe it or not.
Monday, February 9, 2009
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A precise action story that doesn’t become action-tedious. And while you don’t really like his wife, and you think his daughter is not much more sympathetic, Neeson’s character is definitively likable. After the obligatory setup, his character leads us through a staggeringly simple – and engaging -- journey of brutality and violence that is purely motivated and uncomplicated. He lives up to his “specific set of skills” that his character boasts of in the trailer. He is clever, forceful, and not since Dirty Harry, is a character we wish we could be given the same circumstance. Question is, why hasn’t Liam Neeson been making this kind of movie the last three + years? Where has he been, exactly? After all, this isn’t just any actor (how soon we forget). This is Oskar Schindler. This is Michael Collins. This is Robb Roy. (Okay, so this is even Kinsey.) So what’s he been doing? Sure the short appearances and ultimate death scenes in KINGDOM OF HEAVEN and BATMAN BEGINS. But beyond that? Video game voices. Believe it or not.
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Oh? What video game voices, aside from the obvious role as the player's father James in Fallout 3?
ReplyDeletedidn't he die in Batman Begins?? not Batman returns?? I'm lookin forward to seein this movie, because i haven't gotten to it yet
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