38/13
Liam Neeson’s character was diagnosed by a doctor as having CTE
Tale
An aging gangster tries to reconnect with his children and right the wrongs of his past, but the mob doesn’t give up its grip easily. Liam Neeson started boxing at age 9 and boxed at the amateur level until he was 17. A definitive diagnosis of CTE can only be made with an examination of the patient’s brain tissue after a patient’s death.
References Jurassic Park (1993)
This diagnosis should have been presumptive with other options and possible treatments explored. Thug: Were you born without a filter? Or is it something you had to work on?
This film, in Liam Neeson’s career, is almost a cliché, a pleonasm
Lucky NumberWritten by Lene Lovich, Les Chappell (as Leslie Chappell)Performed by Lene LovichLicensed with kind permission from Oval Music and Oval Sounds (PRS). For his age, he has done much worse for a decade now. He is good in this story that can recall certain films from the seventies.
Liam Neeson is poignant here, no problem
This pattern of a hitman or a gangster or an aging cop, of a character who lives his last moments on this earth, this pattern is not new, it has already been told hundreds of times, but that does not detract from the effectiveness of this film. I like this film, this kind of story. Liam Neeson has directed and will direct other films like this in the future.
He no longer has a choice
This plot and this main character remind me of Craig Fairbrass in THE VILLAIN (2020).