Liam Neesonis single-handedly responsible for pioneering what film fans have come to call the “geriaction” subgenre of film in the past few years. This subgenre, if the title didn’t give away, focuses on an older protagonist who is slowly revealed to have a lethal set of skills, and often deploys them against criminals, terrorists, or other unsavory forces. Neeson got the ball rolling with Taken, but other actors have gotten in on the game — Bob Odenkirk in Nobody, Denzel Washington in The Equalizer, and the majority of The Expendablescast comes to mind. While the quality of Neeson’s “geriaction” thrillers is debatable, one of them has gone under the radar for far too long: 2015’s Run All Night, which recently made it to Tubi.
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