The Marksman

While that stuff might be new to this guy, we've seen it all before.

This is a ponderous slog of a tale that rarely achieves anything close to a lasting impact.

As a bare-minimum action flick, The Marksman is mostly serviceable.

A Clint Eastwood reject.

Not a great movie, but courtesy of director Robert Lorenz, a lean, plausibly entertaining one with all the fixin's and none of the extra flab of deep, incisive meaning.

There's not much to the character Neeson plays, or anyone else in the film, for that matter.

It does do a decent job of being reasonably enjoyable without being actively evil, if that's what you're after.

How much you enjoy The Marksman will depend on how much you like to see Neeson taking the law into his own gnarled hands. There's tension in the story, to be sure, but not a lot of depth of character.

Even if you're tired of this fare, you could do a lot worse than get stuck watching The Marksman.

Director Lorenz's actioner is passable but both the film and star Liam Neeson show signs of genre fatigue.