Honest Thief

Taken has run its course...the next time you get this script, Liam, just say no...

With Neeson well within the confines of his comfort zone, tailed by corrupt cops and diving out of hotel windows, the film should be better. Yet it drags...

The second half falls into familiar action tropes, but Honest Thief has some twists and turns, sly humour and a refreshing feel for its characters that raises them beyond genre types.

Honest Thief is a small-scale, low-budget, minor-league affair. That wouldn't be a problem if cinematographer Shelly Johnson had the imagination to compensate for the lack of spectacle, but the story is as familiar as it is tame.

Liam Neeson was 56 when Taken came out in 2008, launching his vengeful vigilante phase. Twelve years on, he's still churning out serviceable action thrillers like this one...

By the standards of Liam Neeson thrillers, Honest Thief is pretty weak tea, a passable, low-octane action movie that doesn't do much more than steal one's time.

Mark Williams slightly tweaks a role to tell the same old story that's so well-suited for the actor of Taken. [Full review in Spanish]

Honest Thief has insincere characters, a mundane plot, and is a fairly bland thriller by any standard.

Honest Thief isn’t a radical reinvention of the stereotypical “Liam Neeson action star” story, but it offers action-packed amusement nonetheless.

This movie is storytelling by numbers, routine and underwhelming. The filmmakers probably hoped that Neeson would lend their work some gravitas. The veteran actor's time would have been better spent sending up his action hero persona instead.