14 DAY TRIAL // Liam Neeson has had a most spectacular career resurrection since “Taken,” starring in a string of more or less successful action films and ushering in a new type of film male hero, that of the aging (but still handsome and charming) butt-kicker.
His latest film, dropping in theaters on September 9, is called “A Walk Among the Tombstones” and is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Lawrence Block.
If you read the book, you probably know what it’s all about. If you haven’t yet, the first trailer for the film is available below and is guaranteed to fill in all the gaps.
Neeson plays a retired NYPD cop who now works as a private investigator “operating just outside the law,” as the official synopsis says or, as he puts it in the trailer, doing favors for certain people, who express their gratitude in gifts.
A heroin trafficker comes to him for help in locating the men who brutally murdered his wife and, because this is his livelihood now, Neeson’s character takes the job, sparing no second thought to the implications it might have on his own life.
In short, the bad guys kidnap someone close to him, so things take a very personal and very dangerous turn soon after he’s taken the case. After “Taken,” you’d expect bad guys to wise up and stop messing with The Liam but, on the other hand, if they did, we’d be missing out on solid (albeit occasionally silly) action flicks.
“A Walk Among the Tombstones” is written and directed by Scott Frank.
