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

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

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

Neeson has become such a pro at this that he can make a stressed-out guy in a wired-up car thrilling enough.

| Aug 29, 2023

The best adjective I can think of to describe this film is “efficient.” It gets the job done, much as one would expect.

| Aug 28, 2023

Matt can park the car every so often to catch his breath; he just can’t get out. This is a writing decision that robs the film of any possible chance at gaining momentum, and also perhaps best exemplifies Neeson’s career over the past decade and a half.

| Aug 26, 2023

Retribution is not the worst of his thrillers/action movies, but it does suggest that Neeson may want to consider retiring from the everyman action-hero beat for good.

| Aug 26, 2023

Director Nimrod Antal and writer Christopher Salmanpour don’t reinvent the wheel; indeed, the whole exercise pivots on creating an excuse to put Neeson behind it and, essentially, leave the driving to him.

| Aug 26, 2023

This is a paycheck movie, to be sure, the kind of direct-to-video title that gets a theatrical release because the lead actor still has star power. But he and his director have earned that paycheck.

| Aug 25, 2023

A film so devoid of thrills, excitement, or purpose that it seems to have been custom-made to play in empty multiplexes during the traditionally dead last weeks of summer.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 25, 2023

Another routine action programmer—doubly forgettable, because he [Neeson] does the whole thing sitting down.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2023

Watching Liam Neeson finally attempt to escape the car bomb is mildly entertaining; there’s just a mediocre movie to sit through first.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 24, 2023

Sleek and efficient as a jaguar, this Liam Neeson vehicle comes up with a simple, singular premise and then floors it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2023

For a movie about a guy trying to save himself and his kids from a car that might blow up at any moment, it's curiously low on thrills and complications.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 23, 2023

When will this genre escape its own tropes of sepia-tinted skies, italicized poster fonts and titles seemingly chosen by plopping a finger onto a page of the Old Testament?

| Aug 23, 2023

It arrives in theaters the last week of August, which is the moviegoing equivalent of desperately scanning the faces at a bar just before closing time.

| Aug 23, 2023

The cards and the cast of players may be different, but the stakes, given the way the game has been played over and over again in the past, are low.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 23, 2023

Slowed by ludicrous dialogue and obvious plot turns...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 23, 2023

The action-thriller is formulaic and obvious. In other words, it's just another Neeson movie, nothing more, nothing less.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 23, 2023

The film’s 90 minutes whiz by.

| Aug 23, 2023