Taken has run its course...the next time you get this script, Liam, just say no...

| Oct 30, 2020

With Neeson well within the confines of his comfort zone, tailed by corrupt cops and diving out of hotel windows, the film should be better. Yet it drags...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2020

The second half falls into familiar action tropes, but Honest Thief has some twists and turns, sly humour and a refreshing feel for its characters that raises them beyond genre types.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2020

Honest Thief is a small-scale, low-budget, minor-league affair. That wouldn't be a problem if cinematographer Shelly Johnson had the imagination to compensate for the lack of spectacle, but the story is as familiar as it is tame.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 22, 2020

Liam Neeson was 56 when Taken came out in 2008, launching his vengeful vigilante phase. Twelve years on, he's still churning out serviceable action thrillers like this one...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2020

By the standards of Liam Neeson thrillers, Honest Thief is pretty weak tea, a passable, low-octane action movie that doesn't do much more than steal one's time.

| Oct 19, 2020

The romance is sweet, but the action is nowhere near plausible.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2020

It's a subdued, at times even intimate, old-guy action flick. And that streamlined, bare-bones quality serves the film well. Mostly.

| Oct 19, 2020

The new Liam Neeson crime movie "Honest Thief" doesn't feel ... honest.

| Oct 16, 2020

A no-frills, low-thrills version of the kind of gritty action picture that has marked the veteran actor's late-stage career.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 16, 2020

It's an inoffensive movie, full of such familiar tropes, it hardly matters if you can keep your eyes open to the end.

| Oct 15, 2020

It's perfectly generic on-demand product that will eat up an hour and a half of your life and be immediately forgotten.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 14, 2020

There's something about Neeson that makes you want to forgive him - whether it's for bank robbery or for making yet another one of these movies.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 14, 2020

Not exactly a thinking man's action movie, and not a gleefully dopey thrill ride either, Honest Thief is as grudging as its main character when it comes to doling out thrills.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 13, 2020

If you love this kind of movie, you will at least like "The Honest Thief."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2020

As "solidly senior Liam Neeson kicks ass" vehicles go, "Honest Thief" falls firmly in the middle, nowhere near the heights of "Taken" but well above the depths of "Taken 3."

| Oct 13, 2020

In a moment when we could really use a gentleman with a particular set of skills tearing no-goodniks apart, we needed something a lot stronger, savvier and more fun than this. Honestly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2020

The repetitious plot is more ritual than text as we watch yet another Liam Neeson avenger defy the will of younger, unscrupulous men.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 13, 2020

This is a film that has blown up in everyone's face.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 13, 2020

Less baroque than some of Neeson's recent efforts, Honest Thief is a solid B-movie thriller that benefits from tight pacing that helps you overcome its significant plot incredulities.

| Oct 13, 2020