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The Marksman

2021

Robert Lorenz

Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, Teresa Ruiz, Juan Pablo Raba ...

4.8

1,702

Thriller. Action A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the U.S.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"The movie displays the measured pacing and tautness marking many of Eastwood's films, and Neeson delivers an Eastwood-style performance while also revealing an emotional vulnerability that proves fully relatable"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Robert Lorenz, stages the action with a convincing ebb and flow, but thanks to an undercooked script what happens in between is mostly boilerplate."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Although Neeson has a nice rapport with young costar Jacob Perez, there’s no escaping the formulaic storyline featuring uncomplicated good guys and abundantly villainous bad guys."	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"You’ve seen an armed, angry Neeson in countless films more interesting than this one"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'A movie that tries to thread the needle between John Wick and 'The Mule' (...) The Marksman' is too enamored with its low-rent January aesthetics to make any detours towards depth."	NEU
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"If one were to diagnose a central problem with The Marksman, it’s that it isn’t actually a Clint Eastwood movie"	NEU
United States	Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times	"It’s a simplistic, closed-loop moral universe in which the major plot thread is tied up too neatly and others are pretty much forgotten"	NEG
United States	Evan Saathoff SlashFilm	"It lacks vitality or distinction enough to set it above other Liam Neeson action films (...) It is the kind of film you watch on accident more than seek out, but you probably won’t regret the accident."	NEU
United States	Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media	"Thanks to Robert Lorenz's smooth, simple direction and Neeson's appealing, sympathetic bond with young Perez, this action-thriller, which is steeped in cliché from top to bottom, very nearly gets by"	NEU

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