The Marksman
The Marksman
The Marksman
Directed by:
Robert LorenzCinematography:
Mark PattenComposer:
Sean CalleryCast:
Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, Teresa Ruiz, Juan Pablo Raba, Luce Rains, Dylan Kenin, Grayson Berry, Esodie Geiger, Alex Knight, David DeLao, Antonio Leyba (more)VOD (1)
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Hardened Arizona rancher Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) simply wants to be left alone as he fends off eviction notices and tries to make a living on an isolated stretch of borderland. But everything changes when Hanson, an ex-Marine sharpshooter, witnesses 11-year-old migrant Miguel (Jacob Perez) fleeing with his mother Rosa (Teresa Ruiz) from drug cartel assassins led by the ruthless Mauricio (Juan Pablo Raba). After being caught in a shoot-out, a dying Rosa begs Jim to take her son to safety to her family in Chicago. Defying his cop daughter Sarah (Katheryn Winnick), Jim sneaks Miguel out of the local U.S. Customs and Border Patrol station and together, they hit the road with the group of killers in pursuit. Jim and Miguel slowly begin to overcome their differences and begin to forge an unlikely friendship, while Mauricio and his fellow assassins blaze a cold-blooded trail, hot on their heels. When they finally meet on a Midwestern farm, a fight to the death ensues as Jim uses his military skills and code of honor to defend the boy he’s come to love. (Madman Entertainment)
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The grey hair and wrinkles are increasing, but they look good on Liam and he certainly knows how to age gracefully. It's not the classic Neeson action vehicle that people were probably expecting, more like a human, sober story of an aging marine, spiced up with a bit of shooting in two scenes, and with some of the clichés I don't like so much (talking to the bad guy) coming in towards the end. A pretty pleasant two hours, but I’ll probably forget about it in a month.
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Weak. It's funny that suddenly people are complaining about a lack of action, if it were present from beginning to end, they would complain about the lack of a story, unfortunately these two things rarely go together, so it's disappointing that the director chose, unfortunately for me, the less attractive option. It's okay for killing a boring Sunday afternoon, Liam Neeson still has enough charisma to annoy me, but his joints obviously don't work well anymore and the cartel killers didn't inspire much respect. 5/10.
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