A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014

     This film is an adaptation of a novel by Lawrence Block featuring the character Matt Scudder.  The setting is New York between 1991 and 1999.  Matt used to be a cop but now he works as a private eye.  A drug dealer hires him to find the men who kidnapped and killed his wife.  He paid the ransom but they still killed her.  At first, Matt refuses the case until he learns how Carrie was killed.  He begins to investigate and he believes this kind of crime as been done by the same men before.  The women being kidnapped are linked to drug dealers.  Matt is ready to give up until a fourteen year-old girl is taken from her home.

     This is a harsh film because of the behavior of the kidnappers.  They target the dealers because they know they have money on hand.  They have no qualms about not living up to any type of bargain they have made with the relatives.   3* (This movie is OK)

114 min, Crime directed by Scott Frank with Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Maurice Compte, Patrick McDade, Laura Birn, Adam David Thompson, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Stevens, Eric Nelsen, Razane Jammal,

Note:  Imdb 6.5 out of 10, 65% critic 54% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3 ½*.

Special Note:  This movie was filmed at various locations in New York City.  This is the second film with the character Matt Scudder.  Jeff Bridges played this role in the 1986 film 8 Million Ways to Die.