On the casting of Neeson, Block said, "Readers often ask who'd be my ideal Matt Scudder, and I usually change the subject. Scudder overpowers and cuffs Albert. Matt asks where he can find them. Two armed men come in and kill the bartender, and Scudder fatally shoots one assailant. TJ snuck into the back of the kidnappers' van and followed them to their home. He wraps a scarf around his fist and gets the man to peek his head through the window before he smashes through it into the guy's face. On the wall are dozens of nude paintings of Carrie, as Peter was in love with her. Kenny complied and brought the money to the area they told him to go to and to wait for Carrie to get back in the car. A Walk among the Tombstones is grim and dark throughout and while the mystery portion isn’t all that original, a good cast, fitting music, and effectual suspense make it a decent movie to watch. Montmartre is talked about by Parisians the way New Yorkers talk about the Village: It's not what it used to be, It's like Disneyland, the artists can't afford to. Scudder, Kenny, Landau, Peter, and TJ (who earlier brought Scudder his old gun) go to the cemetery. A Walk Among the Tombstones may refer to: A Walk Among the Tombstones (novel), a 1992 novel by Lawrence Block A Walk Among the Tombstones (film), a … Matt slips on the blood and falls down the steps. So when I learned Universal was releasing a DVD of Block's A Walk Among The Tombstones I was both thrilled and wary. Please share it with your friends... rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); Kenny knocks out Albert with a bottle and goes into the basement, where he finds Ray’s body and sanitized tools used for dismembering bodies. A man kisses her cheek. Albert shoots at everyone and hits Peter, while Matt manages to get Ray in the side, wounding him. When TJ wakes up, he asks Matt why he stopped being a cop. Release Date: 1. They see Yuri's pretty 14-year-old daughter Ludmilla, better known as Lucia (Danielle Rose Russell), walking her dog. You know that. Basket is empty . A Walk Among the Tombstones [Blu-ray] 0. A Walk Among the Tombstones opens in theaters Sept. 19. [18], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 66% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. They tell Matt that she was a cop and that she was dealing drugs along with them. [4], The film earned $428,000 from Thursday night from 1,918 theaters, and $4.7 million from 2,712 theaters on its opening day. Matt goes to the car and sees TJ is missing. Peter is hiding behind the tombstones with a rifle. He has been sober ever since. Kenny is a drug trafficker whose wife was kidnapped and murdered. Matt goes to the cemetery to speak with the groundskeeper, Jonas Loogan (Olafur Darri Olafsson). Instead, the other two men tortured and killed Leila. Matt leaves him and finds Leila's fiance Reuben (Mark Consuelos) in his apartment and asks him about the last time he saw Leila. Instead, they had Jonas drive to a spot where he witnessed the main kidnapper cutting her blouse open and asking her which breast she likes more while he cuts off the other one. I think you're talking about when Ray claimed he killed the wife because Kenny negotiated on the price. She never arrived. Matt asks him for help with looking for other articles. Buy A Walk Among the Tombstones on Blu-ray with FREE delivery from ZOOM.co.uk - See our full range of other Blu-ray titles. Scudder talks to Leila's fiancé, Reuben (Mark Consuelos), who claims to have witnessed two men drag her into a van driven by a third person. The site's critical consensus reads, "A Walk Among the Tombstones doesn't entirely transcend its genre clichés, but it does offer Liam Neeson one of his more compelling roles in recent memory, and that's often enough. Times of India brings … Liam Neeson brilliant as Scudder, Scott Frank script and direction tops. In a tool shed belonging to Loogan on the building's roof, Scudder finds photos of Reuben and Leila having sex. Matt later goes to an apartment where he is struck by the owner and his son since they have apparently been repeatedly accused of killing her. Matt finds him at Bellevue Hospital. A Walk Among the Tombstones doesn’t really swing for the fences in terms of its action, but the audio track is still engaging even when the film is deliberately simmering. “A Walk Among The Tombstones” not only does justice to one of Block’s most soulful creations, ex-cop and recovering alcoholic turned very unlicensed private dick (“I do favors for people, and they give me gifts,” is how he puts it) Matthew Scudder, it stages, single-handed, a bracing revival of a kind of genre movie that many of us have been mourning. Matt gets into Peter's apartment where he's about to shoot up. Matt listens to it after Kenny leaves, which has a recording of the kidnappers harming Carrie and her screaming. There were many bags in there. Liam Neeson stars in A Walk Among the Tombstones, an action-thriller based on Lawrence Block's bestselling series of mystery novels. ", "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", "Film Review:'A Walk Among the Tombstones, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Walk_Among_the_Tombstones_(film)&oldid=995425837, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 December 2020, at 23:49. Albert and Ray escape in their van, with TJ hiding in the back. In the rain, TJ is found by two punks that want their gun back. [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). But anything could happen. I certainly doubt that's the case with Liam Neeson, but that very subject came up before a press screening of his latest film, "A Walk Among the Tombstones." Movie Review A Walk Among The Tombstones 2014, Story, Trailers | Times of India A Walk Among The Tombstones Movie Review. After Ray proves that the girl is safe, they arrange a drop. They make the exchange, though Lucia's hands are bloodied, with Ray making a comment that this happened before the conditions were set. Film He then enters a bar where cops don't have to pay for their drinks. Matt convinces him to put it down. Matt reveals that during the shootout (from the opening scene), one of the bullets accidentally struck a 7-year-old girl in the eye, killing her. The woman also happens to have tape on her mouth. That’s the problem with A Walk Among the Tombstones: Ray and Albert are gay bogeymen who can be hissed and booed without thinking. Together, they learn that a leg was found in a dumpster by a florist, while other bags filled with body parts were in the pond of a cemetery. Matt then treats TJ to pancakes at the diner. All the people he asks say they saw a van and two men close to where Carrie was last seen. The girl returns to her father, and Albert takes the money. He pursues and kills the second assailant, as well as their getaway driver. During the shootout in 1991, one of his stray bullets "took a bad hop" and killed a 7-year-old girl. They shoot the man in the chest, prompting Matt to take his gun and fire at them. The main kidnapper threatened to send Kenny one of Carrie's breasts to prove he was not messing around. He was then told to look in the trunk of an old car in Red Hook. Matt shoots him down. Albert attacks Scudder, and after a brief fight, Scudder kills him. Kenny brings Scudder to Yuri Landau's home, where the kidnappers call and arrange a drop. 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. Scudder returns home to find TJ sleeping on the couch and spots a drawing that TJ made of himself as a superhero. The kidnappers get away in their van while Matt and Kenny tend to a dying Peter. WICKED RATING: 6.5/10 Title: A Walk among the Tombstones. She quickly waves to the men as she passes their van. At the library, Scudder researches similar killings, and finds victims named Marie Gotteskind and Leila Anderssen. Matt gets him in the thigh and follows him down some steps. Kenny picked one up and cut it open, and blood spilled out. Set for September release", "Universal Dates Crimson Peak, Ouija, Pitch Perfect 2 and More! [24], 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Scott Frank, "A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) - Box Office Mojo", "Watch: Liam Neeson Takes 'A Walk Among The Tombstones' In Trailer For Action Thriller", "A Walk Among the Tombstones - Movie Page", "Why Liam Neeson Movies Are A Guaranteed Success At The Box Office", "Liam Neeson's 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' will be huge", "Liam Neeson Takes 'A Walk Among The Tombstones' In Production Deal with Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Pictures", "Production Begins on Scott Frank's A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES Starring Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, and Ruth Wilson", "Liam Neeson Takes 'Walk Among the Tombstones, "A Walk Among the Tombstones Production Update", "Saw #AWalkAmongTheTombstones today. Matt also suspects Reuben of being a drug trafficker. Matt sends TJ back to his place in a cab. Out the window, Scudder sees Loogan exiting an apartment building. During a conversation with TJ, Scudder explains why he retired. [21], Richard Roeper gave the film a B+ rating, calling the film "a stylish and smart thriller". However, they see his 14-year-old daughter, Lucia (Danielle Rose Russell), and Ray decides to kidnap her. I've read all of them at least three or four times and plan to continue turning those pages. He tells her his wife's name (Carrie) to assure Matt that he did care about his wife. floor and shoots Albert in the head. When TJ wakes up, he asks Matt why he stopped being a cop. Matt looks out the window and sees a cage of birds on the rooftop of the building across the street. Scudder ultimately agrees to find the kidnappers. Matt figures out that Kenny is a drug trafficker and refuses to help him. A Walk Among the Tombstones Soundtrack List (2014) – Complete tracklist, movie score details, the entire OST playlist, all songs played in the movie and in the trailer and who sings them. Director: Scott Frank. We meet the two kidnappers, Ray and Albert (David Harbour and Adam David Thompson), in their home, reading about Y2K fears. He meets a homeless youth named TJ (Brian "Astro" Bradley), a streetwise artist with sickle cell anemia who helps with his search. Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife. A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film[5][6][7][8] written and directed by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. A tear rolls down her cheek. Send your questions or comments about this or any other spoiler to: THEMOVIESPOILER.com. Loogan gives Scudder one name, "Ray," and jumps off the roof to his death. "I know. They take Matt in a van and drop him off after he asks them about Marie and gets no answers. Matt then finds out the man is an agent with his partners. Matt shoots the driver while the final man flees. A Walk Among the Tombstones, a 2014 film based on the novel, starring Liam Neeson Disambiguation page providing links to topics that could be referred to by the same search term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title A Walk Among the Tombstones . Matt returns to his apartment and finds Kenny sitting outside waiting for him. [23] In Variety, Andrew Barker found it a well-made thriller "with a good deal of panache and style". IMDb He tasers him once again in the neck. View basket and checkout Continue shopping. Matt grabs a gun on the Matt grabs the taser from Ray's pocket and gets Albert in the groin, and then again in the neck. He leaves Albert for Kenny to decide what to do with and calls a cab for TJ. Through a flashback, we see the moment Kenny got the phone call from the kidnappers demanding a ransom of $500,000, while Kenny tried to haggle them for $400,000. Eight years later, a drug addict named Peter Kristo (Boyd Holbrook) approaches Scudder, now retired, and asks him to help his brother Kenny Kristo (Dan Stevens). [22] Manohla Dargis in The New York Times called it "one of those rare cinematic offerings: intelligent pulp" but also noted that the film "can be tough to watch, particularly its fleeting images of tortured women". If so, that was just his rationalization, he was likely going to kill her anyway. Matt decides to go back inside and finish the job, remembering the 12 Steps he heard at an AA meeting. Matt tells him to tell Kenny that he will return him his money since he doesn't want to be involved in this case anymore. Eight years later, Matt, now a recovered alcoholic, is in a diner about to have a meal when a junkie named Peter (Boyd Holbrook) approaches him, asking Matt for help for Peter's brother. if (window.self != window.top) {nf=''} else {nf='NF/'}; Matt, Kenny, Peter, Yuri, and TJ all go to the cemetery to meet with the kidnappers. "[19] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". He reads two articles on victims named Marie Gotteskind and Leila Anderssen. Ray is enchanted by her. Loogan admits that he helped kidnap Leila. Cast: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, Boyd Hollbrook, David Harbour, Adam David Thompson Director: Scott Frank Rated: M Running Time: 103 minutes Synopsis: Based on Lawrence Block's best-selling series of mystery novels, A Walk Among the Tombstones stars Liam Neeson (Non-Stop, Taken series) as Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop who … Scudder overpowers and cuffs Albert. There, he learns from the doctor that TJ has sickle cell anemia, which was triggered by either the rain or the assault. Director-screenwriter Scott Frank’s A Walk Among the Tombstones, from the 10th Scudder novel, published in 1992, sends the P.I. What he knows is that the kidnappers were most likely involved with the DEA. In 2002, Harrison Ford was attached to star and D. J. Caruso to direct. Jonas admits that he was the driver when he and the two men kidnapped Leila. After Albert and Ray arrive at their place, TJ sneaks out of their van, calls Scudder, and tells him the address. Jonas feeds his birds and gives Matt one name (Ray) before he jumps off the roof and lands on a car. In it is a page of a book he was writing, along with pictures of Reuben and Leila having sex. [20] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale. Albert gets himself loose. Peter tries admit his love for Carrie, but since he can only say "I loved...", Kenny takes it as an admission of brotherly love, and he returns it. Directed by Scott Frank. He didn't like that she was doing drugs with Reuben, so he conspired with the two men to take her away from there and keep her safe. Matt sits down and slowly closes his eyes. Luckily, for those of you who missed it in theaters, Universal Studios Home Entertainment has just announced that it will be bringing A Walk Among the Tombstones to Blu-Ray … They drive by the home of another drug trafficker, Yuri Landau (Sebastian Roche). Scudder then enters a bar and buys drinks with a coffee. He runs into the street and shoots one man down. ts=String.fromCharCode(60); He realizes it's counterfeit and tries to tell Ray before Matt takes out his gun and shoots Ray twice in the chest, though he is saved by his bulletproof vest. Matt cuffs Albert to a pipe and leaves him to Kenny. Meanwhile, Scudder grows closer to TJ, and encourages the boy to study and avoid a life of crime. Matt calls TJ on a phone he left him and asks him to go to his place and get a box, and to give it to Peter. TJ follows Matt as he heads to an apartment, trying to aid him in detective work. "Going back to our deal," he said. Albert kills the wounded Ray in the basement and goes back upstairs to find Scudder, Kenny, and TJ. Over the opening credits, we see a woman lying down with her eyes wide open. Matt returns home to find TJ sleeping on the couch. Peter is killed, and Scudder wounds Ray. My book's in good hands. The good guy is a washed up cop (nice cliché). Death of a Child: The little girl who was accidentally killed in Scudder's shootout with the robbers at the bar. 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