![]() He has kept his identity secret, but he’s known as the In and Out Bandit, and he has amassed a fortune of $9 million, which he keeps, in cash, in a couple of anonymous storage units.īut now that Tom is with Annie (he met her because she’s the manager of the storage-unit facility), he wants to fess up. His targets were small-town banks, with old vaults that go back to the ’50s, and his strategy was to enter the bank through the air-conditioning vent on the Friday night of a three-day weekend, then drill into the vault and blast it open (the pyro-drill scenes are a lot like the ones in Michael Mann’s “Thief”) then he re-plasters and paints the shattered wall. He’s a thief who carried out a series of 12 heists, over a period of eight years, with each robbery perfectly planned and executed. ![]() But the hook of “Honest Thief” is that its title isn’t at all ironic. Please, for your own sake, I’d advise you to stop.” He’s an action hero who molds the world in his hands.Īnnie thought Tom was an upstanding guy - not a crook, a bruiser, a gun carrier. He’s saying, with every line, “I don’t want to raise my voice. He’s got his towering full-boil fury, but behind it there’s that lingering controlled hint of Irish politeness. ![]() What defines it is that Neeson delivers each low-down threat and underworld proposition as if it were Shakespeare. Directed by Mark Williams, the co-creator of the Emmy-darling Netflix drama “Ozark,” it’s a serviceably energized and routine action crime movie, with a few slammin’ fistfights and gun battles, and it proves once again that Liam Neeson is an actor who will take a paycheck gig without treating it like one.Įver since “Taken,” 12 years ago, gave a steroid shot to his career (and damned if Neeson, at 68, doesn’t still move with the casual alacrity of a man 30 years his junior), he has made the pulp thrillers he stars in into a genre all their own. I can’t say (though I almost wish I could) that the rest of “ Honest Thief” is that kind of howler. It’s like a moment out of “The Naked Gun.”
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