Liam Neeson is a very fine actor and I enjoyed most of his previous movies. What really puzzles me, though, how come such fine actor like him could agree to play in the movie with such idiotic script?
In the movie he plays a bank robber with 100 percent of successful robberies, that is, no one could catch him or figure out who he is. Then he meets a woman, fells in love and decides to 'go straight.' Very noble, indeed. But here the stupid, or rather, idiotic part starts: instead of returning the money he robbed or at least giving it to charity while sending an anonymous letter promising that he won't ever do it again, he decides to turn himself in. He realizes that he will have to do time, probably a lot of time in the jail while he's not a 'spring chicken' that is, at his age every year counts. So instead of spending each and every year that remained in his life with the woman he loves, while returning the money and 'doing time' as any other normal person in his position would do, that is, getting involved in the community, doing charity work, etc., he just turns himself in while hoping that the government would appreciate his noble gesture and gives him a reduced sentence. So he comes across two greedy FBI agents who after probably realizing what idiot they are dealing with decide to take his money and kill him. And here the typical action starts. Naturally for this kind of movie, after lot of car chasing and shooting the bad guys are killed or arrested and the 'good' FBI agent receives the stolen money and, as a nice gesture, allows him to hug his girlfriend for the last time before taking him in. Oh, boy.. Sure, the viewers should be educated that it is not good to rob banks and there's a price to pay for that, but here the political correctness goes overboard.
I really felt sorry for poor Liam in such a stupid role and also felt myself robbed for almost two hours of my time by watching this garbage.
In the movie he plays a bank robber with 100 percent of successful robberies, that is, no one could catch him or figure out who he is. Then he meets a woman, fells in love and decides to 'go straight.' Very noble, indeed. But here the stupid, or rather, idiotic part starts: instead of returning the money he robbed or at least giving it to charity while sending an anonymous letter promising that he won't ever do it again, he decides to turn himself in. He realizes that he will have to do time, probably a lot of time in the jail while he's not a 'spring chicken' that is, at his age every year counts. So instead of spending each and every year that remained in his life with the woman he loves, while returning the money and 'doing time' as any other normal person in his position would do, that is, getting involved in the community, doing charity work, etc., he just turns himself in while hoping that the government would appreciate his noble gesture and gives him a reduced sentence. So he comes across two greedy FBI agents who after probably realizing what idiot they are dealing with decide to take his money and kill him. And here the typical action starts. Naturally for this kind of movie, after lot of car chasing and shooting the bad guys are killed or arrested and the 'good' FBI agent receives the stolen money and, as a nice gesture, allows him to hug his girlfriend for the last time before taking him in. Oh, boy.. Sure, the viewers should be educated that it is not good to rob banks and there's a price to pay for that, but here the political correctness goes overboard.
I really felt sorry for poor Liam in such a stupid role and also felt myself robbed for almost two hours of my time by watching this garbage.