In his mind, that means turning himself in to the FBI and atoning for his crimes if this honest thief returns the money and gets a reduced sentence, he can officially start fresh in a few years. Now that Carter’s found true love and a house in the tonier suburbs of Beantown to settle down in, he’s ready to put his criminal past in the rearview mirror. (We do not.) And the only thing our man is stuck in is, alas, a movie that really doesn’t know how to take advantage of Neeson’s considerable screen presence and talents. Regrettably, not a single wolf shows up, unless you count Jai Courtney’s scenery-chewy, semi-lupine performance as a corrupt fed. His threat - “I’m comin’ for you …” - is, let’s say, more than a little lacking. An ex-Marine, Carter’s skills include safecracking, handling explosives, knowing how to get out of any sticky situation, and glowering. He doesn’t have a wife or a child, but he does have a girlfriend named Annie (Kate Walsh) - they met cute at the Boston storage facility which she manages, and where he’s stashing the loot. “I’m very precise in my work.”) For those who dig numbers, he’s hit 12 banks in seven states over eight years, and is sitting on a $9 million haul. In regards to his job, see title: The star with the purring Irish baritone plays Tom Carter, a notorious bank robber known, per the media, as “the In & Out Bandit.” (He hates the name, for what it’s worth. We like to think we provide a public service here, so let’s answer these queries as they pertain to Neeson’s latest run-jump-revenge outing, Honest Thief. Going into any of Liam Neeson’s middle-aged-man-is-tested action movies - there are now enough of them to constitute their own mini genre within his career - you may find yourself asking a few pre-viewing questions: What’s his profession, and which side of the law is it on? Does he have a wife and/or child, and has said love interest been abducted and/or killed? Is Liam trapped somewhere - like, say, on a plane or a train? Are there wolves? (Please, God, let there be wolves.) Just what is his particular set of skills this time out, and how will he threaten to use them on whoever is making his life hell?
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