Mark Williams’ (Netflix’s Ozark, A Family Man) Honest Thief follows Neeson’s Tom Carter, a former bank robber who accumulated over $9 million over the course of his criminal career before falling for the animated and affable Annie ( Kate Walsh, of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and Girls Trip), who runs a local self-storage facility when she’s not slaving over her studies as a part-time grad student. Sure, some have been stronger than others (with Taken 2 and Taken 3 standing out as much-maligned outliers), but, for the most part, Neeson has established a consistently reliable track record both critically and commercially over the past decade, and luckily, Honest Thief is yet another entertaining entry into the canon of his arousing action extravaganzas. In a way, these stories have even formed their own subgenre of sorts, beginning with Neeson’s stupendously successful 2009 thriller Taken (still the best of the bunch, for my money) and continuing with subsequent financial smashes such as 2011’s Unknown, 2014’s Non-Stop, and 2018’s The Commuter. Studios practically have Neeson’s films down to a science at this point – earn moderate marks from critics, collect a decent amount of cash at the box office, rinse, and repeat. At the start of each film, Neeson seems like an everyday “Average Joe” just minding his business and/or fawning over his family, and then, out of nowhere, he’s crossed in some way by anonymous (or not-so-anonymous) assailants, and this innocuous everyman unveils a slew of formerly secret skills he’ll use over the course of 90-100 minutes to dispatch those who would do harm to him or his loved ones. Honest Thief isn’t a radical reinvention of the stereotypical “Liam Neeson action star” story, but it offers action-packed amusement nonetheless.īy now, you basically know what to expect from a Liam Neeson thriller.
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