Honest Thief

Honest Thief (2020)

Runtime: 99 minutes

Directed by: Mark Williams

Starring: Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Robert Patrick

From: So many production companies, there were TWENTY FIVE producers/executive producers

Remember when Liam Neeson said years ago that he was going to stop making movies like these?

It was only last month when I saw a trailer for this film that I knew of its existence. As it seems like the End of Days in the United States, who knows how much longer any cineplex will be open and I have an AMC A-List app that is still being paid for, might as well watch something I figured would be generic... and was that. Maybe it's the circumstances or perhaps it is that the Taken sequels were examples of how something like this can go horribly wrong, but Honest Thief was fine.

The movie goes out of its way to make the lead an honest thief even though he is a bank robber so good he has stolen 9 million dollars. He never spent a dime of it and he decides to come clean after he-of course-meets a lady, Kate Walsh. The thief (Tom) decides to turn himself in at the FBI but naturally that goes awry so he's on the run, then is looking for revenge. It is generic and nothing about the movie is spectacular-that said, nothing about this is bad either. There was nothing embarrassing or groan-inducing. This includes the action, which at least isn't the shaky-cam and over-edited crap that was one of the reasons why the Taken sequels were so bad.

IMO, this was not a waste of time and it did help that there were some other familiar faces which also added their charms, such as Jai Courtney (who at least was far better than his role as Bruce Willis' son in that bad generic action movie filmed in Russia which claimed to be a Die Hard sequel), Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos and even Robert Patrick. Perhaps this should be seen at home rather than on the big screen unless you have an AMC A-List membership or something similar from another chain, but if you like the genre known as Liam Neeson Old Man Action Thrillers...