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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.
Full reviewLiam 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.
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.
Full reviewThere’s no escaping the formulaic storyline featuring uncomplicated good guys and abundantly villainous bad guys.
Full reviewIt is the kind of film you watch on accident more than seek out, but you probably won’t regret the accident.
Full reviewLorenz stages the action with a convincing ebb and flow, but thanks to an undercooked script what happens in between is mostly boilerplate.
Full reviewNeeson remains the image of dogged, watchable commitment. Even he seems to know that he's the wrong man for the job...
Full reviewIt's a simplistic, closed-loop moral universe in which the major plot thread is tied up too neatly and others are pretty much forgotten.
Full review"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.
Full reviewThe cinematic version of comfort food: satisfyingly familiar but full of starch and empty calories.
Full reviewThe Marksman is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon and Neon Rentals.
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