There are references to Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade in this neo-noir mystery starring Liam Neeson, but there are also touches of Sherlock Holmes in Neeson's recovering substance abuser and dogged sleuth, Matthew Scudder — especially given the presence at his side of a Baker Street Boy, TJ, who helps the Luddite gumshoe with tech matters — but while Scudder is like a gritty contemporary Sherlock Holmes, the crimes he investigates are Thomas Harris Silence of the Lambs ones and this is where the problem lies in a movie that is two disparate halves — one half investigation procedural, the other half unbearably sick torture porn.
★★★☆☆
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