Stuff
This is a shameless smash and grab of No Country For Old Men, Logan and anything else that can trace its whakapapa back to Shane.
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The Marksman
Liam Neeson leads this action thriller as a rancher on the Arizona border who becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing cartel assassins. Directed by the Oscar-nominated producer of American Sniper, Letters from Iwo Jima and Mystic River.
2021Rating: R13, Violence & cruelty108 minsUSA
ActionThriller
- Director:
- Robert Lorenz ('Trouble with the Curve')
- Writer:
- Chris CharlesDanny Kravitz
- Cast:
- Liam NeesonKatheryn WinnickTeresa RuizJuan Pablo RabaDylan KeninLuce Rains
The Marksman / Reviews
Screen Daily
There’s no escaping the formulaic storyline featuring uncomplicated good guys and abundantly villainous bad guys.
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Slash Film
It is the kind of film you watch on accident more than seek out, but you probably won’t regret the accident.
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Variety
Lorenz stages the action with a convincing ebb and flow, but thanks to an undercooked script what happens in between is mostly boilerplate.
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A.V. Club
Neeson remains the image of dogged, watchable commitment. Even he seems to know that he's the wrong man for the job...
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Los Angeles Times
It's a simplistic, closed-loop moral universe in which the major plot thread is tied up too neatly and others are pretty much forgotten.
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IndieWire
"The Marksman" fades out on its very Eastwoodian finale, Clint's touch doesn't feel like an unsubtle inspiration so much as it does a severe kind of absence.
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The Washington Post
The cinematic version of comfort food: satisfyingly familiar but full of starch and empty calories.
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