Honest Thief (2020) <Netfilx or Amazon Prime, I forget>
Liam Neeson is type cast, and this film does minimal effort with his type of role. I can't try to credit as a means for him to break type, either. Premise is a man who has robbed about 8 banks in the past decade meets a woman and decides to come clean - with her, and with the FBI. He calls the FBI and tries to make a deal, the lower level agents sent to check out 'yet another person confessing to be the in-and-out robber' get there, realize he is legit, and end up stealing the millions he tries to turn in as part of his deal. They figure, nobody will believe him. Story gets a bit deeper in that their boss starts to believe Neeson and question his agents, things go proegresively worse for the agents to where they are attempting to kill Neeson and his gf to get rid of witnesses. All in all, the story has a lot of break points - Neeson is smart enough to rob banks and get away with it for years (and some of what he does to the agents), and yet he's dumb enough to hand over the money early in his discussions with the agents? The agents make repeatedly bad decisions that a trained FBI agent wouldn't have thought thru the repercussions? Back to Neeson's type cast....there are very few moments reflective of his 'I know who you are, and I'm coming to get you' type roles, they are too few and too shallow. If you wanted a Neeson film, this won't deliver. If you want to see him branch out a bit...this won't deliver. This isn't the worst film ever, or even in his career, but it's def on the low end. 4/10.