A father's race to save his children has no frills but lots of thrills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

...a watchable yet entirely forgettable thriller...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 26, 2024

Nobody can fault Neeson for agreeing to what must have been a handsome payday for acting with just the upper-half of his body. But...

| Nov 25, 2023

Think Speed, minus the charm, thrills and suspense.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2023

Retribution may please those looking for some undemanding, familiar action. However, this particular type of Neeson formula seems as exhausted as his character.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2023

An inoffensive but inessential addition to Neeson’s latter-years thriller canon. Less the bus that couldn’t slow down than the car that couldn’t get started.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2023

Some guilty pleasure thrills are what’s on offer but they are frankly annulled by Liam Neeson’s autopilot dullness, a driverless car of a performance from an actor we know to be capable of much more.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2023

Good films like this have a finesse about them that carries the audience along for the ride. Some moviegoers may scoff at one thing or another, but the swiftness of the film’s action returns their attention to the dangers on the screen.

| Oct 21, 2023

Of course, you have seen some of this stuff before, but our reliable hero still looks good doing his thing, while there are some slickly-delivered thrills to enjoy...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2023

A remake of a foreign film, itself a rip-off of Speed (1994), Retribution is basically Neeson versus a maniacal GPS.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2023

Retribution has an interesting premise that is supported by believable performances but takes it's foot of the brake towards satisfying resolution.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2023

Liam Neeson's classic high-stakes action meets a ticking bomb, echoing shades of 'Speed.' While the tension is palpable, deeper character connection is amiss. A thrilling, yet familiar, race against time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2023

Turner [Neeson] moves unconvincingly from disengaged husband and father to have-a-go hero, making this perhaps the least watchable of the actor's later-life action films.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2023

Retribution is another underwhelming entry in the Neeson Season that follows middling films such as The Marksman and The Ice Road. It delivers nothing more than the bare minimum of Liam Neeson’s watchability.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 24, 2023

Suspense and vicarious thrills can be fun. That’s why Hitchcock films remain popular. But Retribution, the latest family-members-are-in-danger-and-it’s-up-to-Dad-to-save-them movie starring Liam Neeson, offers 91 minutes of anxiety without the fun.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 23, 2023

Efficiency is an underrated virtue in thrillers, and while there's not a lot that's new here, the basic emotional through-line - why is this happening to me, how can I keep my kids safe, how long before I can get revenge - is refreshingly solid

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2023

Brace yourselves for a shock: Liam Neeson’s latest action movie is actually quite good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2023

Neeson’s one job here is grip the wheel, grimace intensely and bellow as belligerently as he can into his Bluetooth headset without upsetting his children. All of this, he does most convincingly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2023

In what could have been a tense race-against-time action thriller, Retribution suffers from a limp storytelling.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 16, 2023

Another day, another family in peril, although Neeson’s latest interchangeable rescue mission is not without popcorn thrills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2023