A Walk Among the Tombstones

A movie that attempts to hearken back to an older era of crime drama. It does a good job of doing so, though the repeated mentions of y2k were unnecessary.

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This had the advantage of the, sparing, participation of Dan Stevens so was always going to be worth watching - and it actually is. A dodgy drug dealer (DS) calls in retired cop Liam Neeson when his wife is kidnapped and then brutally murdered.

I considered giving it a 5/10, but I normally reserve 5s for films that are not great but are passable as entertainment. So I gave it 4 because their are some elements of the story that are contrived or plain awful.

The detective story has been a staple of movies for years. Everything from the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to the down and dirty Phillip Marlowe have been on display, making the private detective a character that can be either slick or down and dirty.

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In 1991 Detective Matthew Scudder leaves the police department after a shooting goes wrong. Eight years later, working as a Private Investigstor, he is hired by a drug trafficker to find out who kidnapped and killed his wife.

In 1991, In New York, Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is an alcoholic police detective. In 1999, Scudder is retired from the police and is a private investigator without license.

By the way, the film should have concentrated more heavily on the articulate teenage black man who acts as an assistant to Liam Neeson's detective role in this very eerie film.It is constantly raining in New York as depicted in the film.