Liam Neeson gets another mission in The Marksman, the latest from director Robert Lorenz.
This time around the aging action hero plays a rancher barely hanging on to his place near the border. Trouble comes his way when a boy and his mother cross onto his property with the cartel hot on their heels, and being a decent guy, Neeson’s Jim chooses to intervene. He saves the boy but not the mother and is suddenly responsible for getting the kid to safety, meaning he has to give up what little he has left for the cross-country trip.
Basically, it’s another Neeson against the world set up, one in a long line of genre exercises for the unlikely action star. Who might be out of place here is Lorenz, a longtime assistant director under Clint Eastwood with 2012’s Trouble with the Curve as the sole time he was truly at the helm for a movie. None of that gives him a lot of experience with the kind of straightforward action The Marksman promises to be.
He does have Neeson, though, who is the real focal point of the movie. He can keep churning these out and people will keep coming. The only question is where it will rank among his many similar offerings.
The Marksman is directed by Robert Lorenz and stars Liam Neeson, Juan Pablo Raba, and Katheryn Winnick. It is scheduled to be released in the US on January 21st, 2021. For international release dates, click here.
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