Directed by Scott Frank. It is a messy and misjudged collection of recycled cliches and empty red herrings centered around Liam Neeson's standard retired/alcoholic blank slate.
"A Walk Among the Tombstones" falls into that category. Parents need to know that A Walk Among the Tombstones is a crime thriller starring Liam Neeson as private investigator Matthew Scudder (a character previously played by Jeff Bridges in 1986's 8 Million Ways to Die).There's lots of gritty violence, including shoot outs, fighting, and blood. A Walk Among the Tombstones is ostensibly a crime drama/thriller about a private detective searching for two kidnappers, but it succeeds at generating neither drama nor thrills.
"A Walk Among The Tombstones" is Lawrence Block's tenth Matthew Scudder book and was first published in 1992. A Walk Among the Tombstones is at its best in its first half, when mood and character and the film’s central mystery are all terrifically conveyed. Looking back over Liam Neeson’s career since Taken turned him into an action hero one could argue that he’s basically made the same movie over and over. Review: A Walk Among the Tombstones. A Walk Among the Tombstones, review: 'horrifically, pointlessly violent' There is no point to the nastiness in Liam Neeson's latest depraved thriller, says Rupert Hawksley 2 The darker side of Neeson.
Share; Tweet; 0. Read full review The look, style and smarts of A Walk Among the Tombstones seem like such a refreshingly toned-down departure from the outlandishness of Neeson’s “Taken” franchise that it’s all the more dismaying when the film shifts radically into a sadistic tableau of blood and gore.
With Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Boyd Holbrook. This is a review of the book.
Women and teens are kidnapped and terrorized (one is threatened with having one of her breasts sliced off). I have not seen the movie. Many will go into this movie looking to see Neeson kicking dudes a**es left and right and they may be sorrily disappointed. By Matthew Razak February 20, 2020. "Tombstones" is more about the detective story and the darkness that the characters descend into as the film progresses. Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife. Scudder is an ex-cop who fell into the bars in Hell's Kitchen and had a hard time falling out of the bars. The darker side of Neeson.