Absolution (2024)

[mwynn]

ABSOLUTION Official Trailer (2024) Liam Neeson - YouTube

[drb999]

I’m sure that I’ll be watching it at some point.

[Maximux]

So as me

[pikeman1]

[jezhead]

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[Dreamliner330]

I saw Absolution in theaters today. It’s just a very slow drama and I was very bored. I didn’t watch trailers or anything. I wasn’t expecting constant action but when you’re 80 minutes into a 110 minute movie and the ‘call to action’ hasn’t happened yet…oof.

If you just want to watch a slice of life movie about an aging gangster with not much to do, this is for you.


4.5/10

[moovimn]

Watched this today as well. It's serviceable Liam Neeson. Has some interesting stuff, but it's not a grand slam at all. Likely not something you'd watch a 2nd time unless you missed a scene or two.

[russweiss1]

This is the third

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film I've seen in the past few years. Neeson played a similar character in Memory and Michael Keaton gave it a shot in Knox Goes Away. Absolution was the least enjoyable. Ron Perlman was wasted in this (and he also made his own old man gangster film a few years ago, The Baker). I hadn't seen the trailer but was hoping for more than what I was given.

[HotRats]

This is a strange one. An unhappy mash up of noir, drama, crime and a late burst of geriaction. Moland has done much better, A Somewhat Gentle Man, In Order Of Disappearance and its remake Cold Pursuit (with Neeson).

[John Earls Umbrella]

The best ageing gangster movie for me is The Friends of Eddie Coyle with Robert Mitchum. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.