A New Liam Neeson Movie Is Blowing Up On Streaming
A new Liam Neeson movie is taking off on streaming.
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Liam Neeson has a few high-grossing and top-rated movies under his belt, including Taken, and The Grey, which features one of the best toughest-man-alive scenes in movie history – Liam Neeson going hand-to-teeth with an alpha wolf. Now, a new Liam Neeson movie is blowing up on streaming, and yet again, it starts with him holding a rifle in his hands.
Liam Neeson’s latest high-grossing film, The Marksmen, is currently among the most-watched movies on iTunes in the USA. It follows a story of Jim Hanson, a former United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper and Vietnam war veteran who lives along the Arizona – Mexico border, reporting illegal crossings. During one of his patrols, he ends up involved in a shootout with the Mexican cartel and ends up helping a young boy escape his grim fate by the cartel’s hands.
The movie was initially released on January 15, 2021, receiving mixed or average reviews and grossing a worldwide total of $22.3 million as of April 26, 2021. It managed to knock down Wonder Woman 1984 from the top of the charts when it first debuted in January, raking $15 million from theatrical releases in the US and Canada alone. Given the ongoing pandemic, this sum is actually almost as much as the combined domestic releases of every Best Picture nominee from this year’s Academy Awards, excluding the Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7, which were streaming exclusives. This only serves to prove Liam Neeson’s popularity and his acting prowess of the toughest man alive type of roles the actor established himself in.
His performances in The Marksmen and Honest Thief make Liam Neeson the only star with leading roles in two number one titles released during the COVID-19 pandemic, which isn’t all that surprising. That’s what you get when you put up cinema’s prominent hard man into a role of an elderly former Marine dragged into a gunfight with the Mexican cartel – an action thriller indie movie that manages to outperform 2021’s acclaimed dramas in their box office earnings. Liam Neeson’s involvement in a described movie plot almost always guarantees good viewership, despite the mixed and average criticism of the story itself.
Still, the critics weren’t that mild towards The Marksmen. According to Rotten Tomatoes, an online review aggregator, the movie’s formulaic plot entirely sits on the exceptional performance of Liam Neeson as the lead and the actor’s sad-sweet charisma. Neeson is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, credited with over 135 appearances in various titles like Nell, Les Miserables, and Taken. Star Wars fandom knows him best as a venerable Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. His quote “I will find you and I will kill you” from the movie Taken became an internet meme, primarily used in the form of reaction images.
Besides being one of the highest-grossing actors, Liam Neeson won 22 awards, including several Best Actor awards for his work in The Grey, Schindler’s List, Michael Collins, and Kinsley. His work in The Marksman is highly praised by the critics, despite the movie’s mixed reviews, making the movie a worthwhile pastime. You can watch Liam Neeson as The Marksmen on streaming since it’s one of the most popular titles on iTunes.
