A Walk Among The Tombstones

Another day, another movie starring Liam Neeson in which he speaks threateningly to the villain through a telephone. At least that might be what one would think while watching the trailer for this movie. The trailer did not fail to intrigue me though... it looked darker and rougher than most of Neeson's recent fare, in the style of last years Prisoners. A mystery instead of an action movie, hearkening back to the days where gumshoes sat in smoky bars nursing there liquor. That was all I asked for when I walked into the theater....



Neeson plays a retired cop working as an unlicensed P.I. who is hired to track down the men who kidnapped and killed a client’s (who is also a drug dealer) wife. The serial killers are brutal and focus on drug dealers because of their unwillingness to turn to the cops, but when you have Liam Neeson on the case, who needs cops?

Sometimes movies just deliver. Sometimes they don't try to outsmart you or try to be something they're not. When a movie does this, and concentrates on what it is, you get a movie like Tombstones. It's a straight shooting detective movie with compelling characters and a strong script. I go as far to say it's the only neo-noir films of the last decade that isn't set in Sin City. A Walk Among the Tombstones is a dark, bloody, gloomy, depressing, slog through the rain...but if you like that type of thing, this is a Walk worth taking.       A