Plenty of fun is provided by trying to spot the local locations where the reckless car chases were filmed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 17, 2022

They should know the one thing you really don’t want to do is mess with Liam Neeson’s family, because the man has a very particular — Taste in screenplays.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 16, 2022

This melancholy actioner with a cliché-ridden script highlights a moral man contemplating retirement as his past catches up with him — along with his achy knee joints and feet. But Neeson’s still got game.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2022

No element of the narrative is presented with the modicum of detail required to make us care... which is a shame, because if you squint really hard you could see the beginnings of an intriguing political thriller in there somewhere.

| Feb 11, 2022

One could even argue that it’s not a movie at all, only a rusted-out recycling bin of ill-fitting themes, notions, poses, conventions, affectations, tropes, tropelets and inert snippets of dialogue from other movies.

| Feb 11, 2022

The script is, gross opportunism aside, dismally threadbare.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 11, 2022

The kind of low-wattage, paint-by-numbers thriller that usually signifies a perilous turn toward the action purgatory that is cheap, direct-to-nowhere fare.

| Feb 11, 2022

As for Neeson, what can we say? He could keep doing this ’til he’s 80, but surely there’s something better out there. As the film’s closing song goes, “every story needs a hero.” True. But every hero also needs a story. A better one.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 11, 2022

The twist in the screenplay is that the story sticks with the point of view of Neesons nave brute, who in an ordinary film would be a no-name heavy offed in the third act. Am I the good guy? he asks. Not really.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 10, 2022

A by-the-numbers action thriller lacking in both action and thrills.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 10, 2022

The world of government secrets and undercover agents should be a lot more exciting than what Blacklight has to offer.

| Feb 10, 2022

For fans of Neeson as action hero, “Blacklight” may be something of a disappointment, at least measuring it against the yardstick of previous thrillers in this particular branch of the actor’s body of work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 10, 2022

To its credit, “Blacklight” is watchable, and unintentionally laughable, but it could have been a lot better.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2022

You will walk away... with many, many, many questions. The first one being: Can I please have my money and 107 minutes back?

| Feb 9, 2022

Neeson has basically become a hero for hire, going through the same old motions in one silly shoot-’em-up after another. We already have one Bruce Willis. We don’t need two.

| Original Score: D | Feb 9, 2022

An unsurprisingly tepid action thriller which extends this odd phase of Neesons career, but the best thing that can probably be said about it is that its not materially worse than most of the others.

| Feb 9, 2022

Blacklight is a series of repetitious, dialogue-driven scenes capped by an inevitable, and uneventful, action-driven showdown.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 9, 2022

It offers nary a memorable set piece or resonant line of dialogue, except for when Neeson’s character admits at one point, “In hindsight, I suspect I made a poor career choice.”

| Feb 9, 2022