The latest Liam Neeson joint is just mind-numbingly, bone-crushingly, thumb-screwingly boring. Just a long slog of tedium… in a movie that think its has something to say and wants to be this serious-minded criminal investigation flick. And a hit-man with Alzheimer’s flick too. Pay for one movie, get two separate movies glued together.

The flick stars Guy Pearce as an FBI agent investigating child trafficking… I think. I really don’t know what they were really doing because I was so brain-clottingly bored, I started to lose track of the plot. Or maybe it was also confusing to people who really were raptly paying attention… Anyhow, Neeson plays an aging hitman in a whole other movie who refuses to assassinate a little girl… which causes problems with the sunshiney people who put out the hit. Somehow the movies collide… eventually… In due time.

To be fair, I guess Neeson was given some acting to do. To be mean, I don’t think he did a very good job. His performance as a man losing his faculties is kind of embarrassing. But at least it’s not his usual quickie action flick. Might have been better if it was though.

At least I was able to understand Neeson’s side of the story… pretty basic scenario, not a lot of sitting around desks pondering mysteries. As to the investigation, it rarely collided with Neeson’s story and, when it did, I don’t know what anyone was expecting to get out of it until the very end.

On the plus side, I suppose everyone else put in a good performance? I guess. And there were some character who wound up dead that you usually wouldn’t get in a movie. So that was surprising. Perked my interest for a few seconds.

I was really dreadfully bored which lead to confusion which was my own damn fault. But the movie wasn’t helping by creating interesting characters or scenes or action. Hell, all the shots were the most perfunctory, mundane setups, designed to elicit no interest in the watcher. Everything crawled, nothing was compelling or had a good flow from scene to scene.

The end.

Score: 63