Good film

Everything is filler in the grand scheme of things, Brux

He's a Private Eye in this.

My favourite ? Taken is obviously a classic, but I think I agree with you on A Walk among the Tombstones. Chilling, but really good film.

Any film in which he says "Release the Kraken!".

I just saw it, and I agree Heisenberg. It's a 3/5 star film. Not bad. Not great. Just middling.

A lot of cliches and a few plot angles that I didn't care for (i.e. SPOILER: the kidnap-rape-murder of the disappeared man's half-sister, and the turgid reference to the femme fatale's daddy's suicide/the 'black dog, plus Danny Huston playing yet another telegraphed big bad businessman type; honestly, the biggest surprise is when he *isn't* cast as the bad guy in something), as well as a good few cliches that I expected and I'm pleased they ended up avoiding (at one stage I thought we were going to get another tired sob story about Clare Cavendish being groomed/molested by the Ambassador as a child, but instead it simply turned out *she* was the one coming on to *him* since she had a fetish for older men). The reference to the Maltese Falcon and the Ark of the Covenant, although technically valid, was arguably an anachronistic nod to films that postdated 1939, and referring to a Black man as 'well-spoken' is a bit icky (however well-intentioned).

And you're 100% right about Neeson. Without having to do very much, he's incredibly watchable in *everything* he does, especially in this, where he was the one character who wasn't speaking in riddles (though, to be fair, there was a few hardboiled dialogue gems among the other characters), and Jordan's a pro, and almost always makes polished, good-looking films with decent production values, even though there are times when one wishes he'd push himself a little more (as he did during the 80s/90s, with The Company of Wolves, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game, The Interview with a Vampire, Michael Collins, and even the underrated High Spirits and We're No Angels).

Had a hard time getting through it. It's a wonderfully made movie, felt very period correct, with lots of great acting from all involved. And yet I found the whole thing rather charmless and un-engaging. And I think the problem was Neeson. He just didn't have any chemistry with the rest of the cast. This whole movie is mostly him talking one on one with a revolving door of different folks as he works the case and it just really falls flat. He don't have whatever that Humphrey Bogart energy was to carry a picture like this. I also feel the movie needed a f ton more cigarette smoking. EVERYBODY was chainsmoking back then.