The film was released on September 19, 2014. During the fight in the basement, the table starts to break before they fully hit it, making it obvious that the table wasn't "real", also Scudder picks up the table leg and it is obviously cut straight across rather then jagged like a break would be. Im glad they left T.J. out of the trailers, though. Purchase A Walk Among the Tombstones on digital and stream instantly or download offline. After he delivered the ransom as instructed, the kidnappers directed him to a car containing her dismembered body. Terms and Policies And while TJ does tip off Scudder and co. to the location of the killers home, in the book this is accomplished much earlier and without the hokeyness of him jumping in the back of the van. Albert actually hears the ringtone, but dismisses it. When Kenny makes it clear he's going to take revenge, Scudder takes TJ and leaves. The site's critical consensus reads, "A Walk Among the Tombstones doesn't entirely transcend its genre clichs, but it does offer Liam Neeson one of his more compelling roles in recent memory, and that's often enough. The movie's lean plot, a wealth of action and Neeson's commanding presence made it a surprise hit and it received two sequels. Ah thank you! Throughout the whole movie, I just wanted Ray and his companion to die. Ray and Albert (portrayed by David Harbour and Adam David Thompson) are not just the bad guys; they're porn-corrupted boyfriends--evildoers and gynophobic creeps who abduct women then perform mutilations on them before killing them. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AWalkAmongTheTombstones. Before they can strike again and destroy other lives, Scudder races through the back streets of New York to catch the killers, blurring the lines between lawful and criminal as he goes. Maybe it even starts to feel good for Matt to stretch those police muscles again. Even with Liam Neeson in the lead, its not the most likely project to get a greenlight (and indeed Frank said that without Neeson, this movie would never have happened). There is also a large portion of Scudders detective work in the book that involves utilizing a pair of hackers to get into NYNEX (with laptops, external modems, and acoustic couplers if you want to get an idea of how technologically ancient Blocks book is) to uncover phone logs for him, which Frank rightly jettisons, as its a lot of tech talk and not that cinematic. But the way the movie stands, its as if a vital body part has been lopped off. Influencers: Profiles of a Partnership 2022, How to Pitch Stories and Articles to IndieWire, IndieWire's Chief Film Critic Eric Kohn Picks the Best Movies of 2020 -- Year in Review, 'Adventure Time' Is Slowly Going Off the Air, And Everyone's Moving On, Oscar Voters Go International For Best Live Action Short Picks, though the box office suggests there might not be. 0:57. It stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, and Boyd Holbrook. The pair of villains are mostly the same too, but given a more pronounced presence in the film, to probably set up a better dynamic between them and anti-hero Scudder. Peter is killed, and Scudder wounds Ray. "A Walk among the Tombstones" is a gloomy crime film developed in slow pace, but with a complex story. Scudder refuses. And so, with the official movie tie-in book landing on our doorstep, we figured it was a good opportunity to investigate how the source material and movie were aligned and where changes were made, and how these choices affected the movie. Matt Scudder: I do favors for people, and in return, they give me gifts. Tombstones really feels like a New York City story, and with some beautiful work from cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr., that palpably evokes the neighbourhoods that Scudder haunts in the novel as well. At any rate, in Blocks book, TJ is someone Scudder has known for a while already, a homeless kid who can get the kind of information that sometimes the PI cant or doesnt know how to obtain. ", "Box Office: 'Maze Runner' Off To Good Start With $1.1M, 'Tombstones' Takes In $480K Late Night Numbers", "Box Office: 'Maze Runner' Sprints To $11.25M, 30+ Weekend", "Box Office: 'Maze Runner' Races To $32.5M Weekend, Kevin Smith's 'Tusk' Bombs", "Box Office FINAL: 'Maze Runner' Finds $32.5M; Liam's 'Walk' Limps In With $12.7M; 'Where I Leave You,' $11.5M", "Film Review:'A Walk Among the Tombstones', https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Walk_Among_the_Tombstones_(film)&oldid=1142235352, Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter, Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 07:11. I agree on the green screen, it was weak. I think you're talking about when Ray claimed he killed the wife because Kenny negotiated on the price. with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. But now movies are about spectacle. Nowadays, hes something of a private detective. Privacy Policy Once Scudder questions him and he tells Scudder what happened, he's worried they'll find out and do the same to him as they did to their victims. He was Ray & Albert's accomplice. Even though they live and kill together, they don't care for each other as shown when Albert murders the grievously wounded Ray, then calmly goes upstairs to eat dinner before cleaning up and moving on. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Slim, blond types (one bland, the other goateed), they recall the gay Nazi-like killers in Michael Haneke's American remake of his sadistic art-movie Funny Games. His actions, by movies end, indicate that he might even be taking on more of a parental role with the teen. Her body was found chopped into neatly wrapped pieces in the back of an abandoned car. One of the key relationships Scudder has is with Elaine Mardell, a professional working girl for over two decades, who he met on the job. Kenny asks Scudder to help him find his wifes killers. Ray is a smug sadist while Albert is an emotionless sociopath. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. Down deep, under the layers of wool, corduroy and thick, city-forged skin, Matt is a cop. Good movie. Jonas. Drake, Usher, and Burna Boy to Headline J. Coles Dreamville Festival. Coming Soon. There is also a four letter word hanging between them (starting with the letter l) that is beginning to gain some importance. As for which is better, its a bit of an unfair question to ask. Marvel Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, Jurassic Park Movies Ranked By Tomatometer, 10 Black Women Filmmakers Who Have Shaped the Cinema Landscape of the 21st Century, 10 LGBTQIA+ Women Who Became Trailblazers in Entertainment. Boyd Holbrook is eloquently jittery as his addict brother, Olafur DarriOlafsson has two vivid scenes as a graveyard attendant, and what can you say about David Harbours tauntingly demonic Ray? Its not quite a guiding force, but it keeps him grounded, particularly in a vocation that exposes him to some abhorrent crimes and people, the kind that would make returning the bottle a very attractive proposition. Kenan Khoury survives in the book, but Kenny Kristo is killed in the movie, being shot, Ray asks his brother Albert to treat his wounds. There was something else involved. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. Liam Neeson, astute gentleman, legendary Jedi, and assassin who can hunt anyone down who takes his family. He had his problems, and when they showed how the little girl died, that made it seem more real. Scudder leaves to send TJ away while Kenny plans a gruesome fate, only for Albert to kill him and Scudder - who's returned - to face him in a final battle. 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Though its never specifically cited, the Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference is a controlling force. The movie ends on a more hopeful note than the novel, with Matt coming back from killing Albert to see TJ asleep and having drawn a version of himself as a superhero with a sickle emblem on his outfit - a reference to his sickle cell anemia. Scudder takes the job. Her husband coughed up a $400,000 ransom, but it didnt save her. Neeson turns in a solid performance, backed by a good supporting cast that features Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) as a sympathetic drug trafficker and a couple of really vicious bad guys. Seeing the trailers earlier this summer, I got chills at the darkness and mystery the tale promised. Nothing more, nothing less. Despite being kind of clich I still enjoyed this film for what it was going for. A film adaptation of Blocks novel had been in development for several years with a script from Scott Frank. All rights reserved. He reads about victims Marie Gotteskind and Leila Andresen. Ray And Albert. He seemed very human, and didn't even want to handle this case to begin with. As the body count goes up, he must use unreliable witnesses and gut intuition to try to catch the murderers. Sadly, well never know. Running over 400 pages long, Blocks book obvoiusly has a lot more plot, and for the most part, Frank does a pretty good job of streamlining the story. the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. We also see a killer wrap the wire around a womans breast. He goes into the basement where he finds Rays body and tools used for dismembering bodies. Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife. Scudder and Kenny find TJ outside the house and they all silently enter the house finding Albert calmly eating his dinner. When Scudder reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker (Dan Stevens) hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this . 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and written by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same title by Lawrence Block. Directed by Scott Frank. Another is pounded in the knee and face with a baseball bat, leaving his nose and mouth bleeding. Liam Neeson as Matt Scudder; Dan Stevens as Kenny Kristo; David Harbour as Ray; Adam David Thompson as Albert; Eric Nelsen as Peter; Brian 'Astro' Bradley as TJ. I was so uncertain of what his arc would be that I even wondered briefly if he was going to end up shooting Liam Neeson in the end of the movie, right when you think the action is over. It contains a mix of suspense, thriller and neo-noir elements. Scudder returns home to find TJ sleeping on the couch and spots a drawing that TJ made of himself as a superhero, with a sickle on his costume representing his sickle cell anemia. A wire garrote is used to slash open a throat. Neesom's Scudder even refers to Ray and Albert as a "Bert and Ernie act." After a table-turning fight, Scudder overpowers and tasers Albert. He tells TJ that carrying a gun on the street is the same as putting it to his own forehead and pulling the trigger. I'd wager they were out of money (or time) for production but still needed something though, which I'm willing to forgive. They probably were going to kill the last girl as well, but decided to go for the ransom instead. Adam David Thompson (left) and David Harbour play gay serial killers in 'A Walk Among the Tombstones'. A very well made crime thriller. Terms of Service apply. 055 New movies & TV, plus Liam Neeson & Kevin Smith interviews. A while later, police arrive at the crime scene with Scudder observing from afar. The Magical Last Hours of the Flix Gonzlez-Torres Show. All Rights Reserved. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Its true that the books ending would have been hard to bring off. 7. Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. Scudder leaves to send TJ away while Kenny plans a gruesome fate, only for Albert to kill him and Scudder - who's returned - to face him in a final battle. Now I know what it is. PREVIEW. In 1999, Scudder is retired from the police and is a private investigator without license. Its an interesting look at the process and adaptation, but warning: spoilers ahead. [15], A Walk Among the Tombstones grossed $26 million in the United States and Canada, and $36.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total gross of $62.1 million, against its $28 million budget. A drug kingpin hires troubled ex-cop Matt Scudder to find his wife's killers, a hunt that leads to shocking revelations in New York's underworld. The bartender is killed by two armed men who enter the room. Said by the character himself towards the end of Blocks novel, its a bit of wink (if not the greatest decision) that Frank essentially does that in the film, putting the teenager in the back of the bad guys van after the handoff for the girl and money in the graveyard. He's super modern too, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. And we see them use some of them. [23] In Variety, Andrew Barker found it a well-made thriller "with a good deal of panache and style".[24]. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. R (Disturbing Images|Brief Nudity|Language|Strong Violence), Crime, If so, that was just his rationalization, he was likely going to kill her anyway. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. And Blocks story is pre-internet/pre-cellphone too, which lends it a grittier feeling. Id be way more enthusiastic if Frank hadnt swapped out the books horrific, unforgettable ending for something so conventional, I can barely remember it a few days later. Rounding up our favorite funny videos of the month. Copyright Fandango. In the climax, Matthew finally subdues Albert with a taser directly to the testicles. (Though Frank adds the detail of the duo also selling videotapes of their deeds to the snuff film circuit, with lafur Darri lafssons cemetery worker acting as a narrative clue shortcut). Ireland. 2023 Vox Media, LLC. After realizing Landau's wife is bedridden, they prepare to leave for a new target. This grotesque plot contrivance goes so far from what makes private detective fiction interesting (the classical investigation into despoiled human nature) that it seems to be working out something peculiar: in fact, some dubious obsession with queerness. Scudder goes back inside the house and finds Albert gone. I think the one who said ''I just wanted'' was doing it for the money and the other guy really took pleasure in it. On the casting of Neeson, Block said, "Readers often ask who'd be my ideal Matt Scudder, and I usually change the subject. But when he understands the depth of the murderers depravity and the inevitability that theyll kill again and again he knows he has no choice. Once we get to know him, we realize that Matt is indeed a good guy who regrets and constantly works to atone for his bad past. I just wished they showed more of the villain's backstory. It made me HATE the villains though, so they did a great job of that. After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. A girl and her drug-dealing boyfriend snort coke. Matt Scudder used to be a cop. People who enjoy thrillers are so accustomed to the cat-and-mouse storytelling dynamic that they think the hero/villain dichotomy is unavoidable. The challenge is to translate the feel of those novels into something visual, and then from a story standpoint, the moves in these stories are very small, writer/director Scott Frank told us about bringing Lawrence Blocks 1992 book A Walk Among The Tombstones to the big screen. A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film [5] [6] [7] [8] directed and written by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. Fortunately when the call is made, the killers are out of the van in the pouring rain. (Wong Kar-wai was generally taken as the auteur behind the barroom drama My Blueberry Nights, but Block co-wrote the screenplay, and the film had as much to do with his worldview.). All an accident. He gave up his brother to a DEA investigator who was later targeted by the killers. Hes a trudger. And why did they feel the need to save the one girl and kill others related to drugs? However, they see his 14-year-old daughter, Lucia, and Ray decides to kidnap her. A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film[5][6][7][8] directed and written by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. And he remembers a young woman reading off each of AAs famous 12 steps, many of which talk of turning your weaknesses and flaws over to God and praying for the Lords power to remove those defects of character and carry an individual through. Here are the main changes between A Walk Among The Tombstones' book and the Liam Neeson fronted movie. If there are further cinematic stories to come from Scudder (though the box office suggests there might not be) we hope more of his personal life enters the picture, as it makes him a more interesting character, with more to lose too. She actually survives, though not without losing a finger it turns out that a stray bullet from Scudder killed a young girl. Ive been reading Lawrence Blocks New Yorkset Matthew Scudder detective novels for almost three decades and hoping that some filmmaker would finally nail their distinctive, highly influential vibe, in which the PI hero meets sadism with grim stoicism but goes all-out to get the bad guys anyway: If its in his control to do something, he will he must act. He goes down the basement and sees Kenny's dead body on the stairs (implying that Albert killed Kenny). Its a nice undercurrent to a very grim story, and one sorely missed in the film. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Wanted to know if others saw it/thought about it. It should have been avoided in A Walk Among the Tombstones, in which a pair of gay serial killers are hunted down by Liam Neeson playing Matthew Scudder, an ex-cop turned private investigator. A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jeremy New York City, 1991 - Detective Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is in a car with his partner. He then enters a bar where cops don't have to pay for their drinks. Theyre grinning kidnappers of women who take the ransom and then return their victims, as agreed only lovingly cut into small pieces. Maybe I missed something. Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife. And he left him barely alive in the basement along with his dead partner in crime. He did it as an unhinged dad in "Taken," as a surly air marshal in "Non-Stop" and now as a haunted ex-cop in "Tombstones.". the movie should rated R+ cause it has some pretty seriously gross topics. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. How viewers can change the meaning of a great artists work. Was the original shot and discarded? Still, he thinks about what might have happened if hed not been drinking just before. Scudder shoots one, pursues and kills the second assailant, and the getaway driver. , and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. The plot is realistic and the viewer follows Scudder investigation. Scudder researches similar killings at a public library. A Walk Among the Tombstones doesn't entirely transcend its genre clichs, but it does offer Liam Neeson one of his more compelling roles in recent memory, and that's often enough. Kenny brings Scudder to Yuri Landau's home, where the kidnappers call and arrange to exchange ransom for Lucia at a cemetery. Never have I been so grateful for an absent dialect coach. People are afraid of all the wrong things. He tells Scudder their address. "I just wanted" Maybe "I just wanted to make Ray happy?". A guy gets his brains blown out later on. The return of the repressed in the new thriller, A Walk Among the Tombstones, which stars Liam Neeson. Given the legal and cultural advances pertaining to gay rights and marriage equality, it was likely that some form of backlash would erupt. One of his stray bullets "took a bad hop" and hit a 7-year-old girl in the eye, instantly killing her. Two armed men come in and kill the bartender. He puts his life on the line repeatedly (often without any weapon in his hand) to try to save innocents. But now it's safe to tell you that, ever since I saw him in Michael Collins, Neeson has been up at the top of my personal Scudder wish list. Asshole Victim: No one sheds any tears when Albert murders him out of sheer petulance. As presented in the film, Scudder is an ex-cop and recovering alcoholic. Hmmm. He only half-succeeds it is sentimental but it helps that Bradley has a hard, unbeatific face, and that the movie needs his bopping energy. Played straight when Matthew gets into a running gunfight with three gangbangers despite the fact that he was drinking in a bar. 27 talking about this. The bartender serves Matt two shots and a cup of coffee. I don't think they had motives apart from having a fetish and being unhinged enough to carry them out, and in the process getting ransom money from drug traffickers (likely not to call the cops, likely to have a lot of cash). He meets TJ, a homeless streetwise youth. Set for September release", "Universal Dates Crimson Peak, Ouija, Pitch Perfect 2 and More! Scudder, then, is much different from Neesons other bad-guy-hunter, Bryan Mills, in the Taken movies. The two kidnappers, Ray and Albert, surveil the home of Yuri Landau, another drug trafficker. And there were other little strings, tiny bits and pieces of the story that pleaded to be pulled at and worried over. The killers buy a guy drinks to better pump him for information. [16][17] It debuted at number two at the box office on its opening weekend earning $13.1 million behind The Maze Runner ($32.5 million). While the streetwise TJ (Astro) does appear in the film, the character is presented as someone Scudder happens to come across while doing research at the library. Kenny/Kenan stays behind, and later tells Scudder exactly what he did to Ray: he cut out his eyes, chopped off his hands and feet, and cut out his tongue. A Walk Among The Tombstones'movie finale sees Scudder and Kenny tracking down kidnapper Albert after the gunfight, with the latter having killed wounded partner Ray. The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. [20] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. However, one of Franks most inspired choices was to move the tale up a few years, and play on the pre-millenium tension buzzing in the background. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. It was a stray bullet in the midst of an unexpected shootout. 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