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- 2023
- R
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 31 m
- 2023
- R
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 31 m
Summary When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner (Liam Neeson) begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks. With his kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the s...
Directed By: Nimród Antal
Written By: Alberto Marini, Christopher Salmanpour
- 2023
- R
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 31 m
- 2023
- R
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 31 m
Retribution
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4.2
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Summary When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner (Liam Neeson) begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks. With his kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the s...
Directed By: Nimród Antal
Written By: Alberto Marini, Christopher Salmanpour
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
43
12% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
69% Mixed
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18 Reviews
19% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
43
12% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
69% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
19% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Neeson’s last few action flicks may have been just for fans, but Retribution is for everybody.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 User Ratings
4.2
10% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
63% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
27% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 User Ratings
4.2
10% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
63% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
27% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Nice but nothing special. Liam Neeson plays his role very well, but the thin plot, the superficial characters and the lack of depth make this film nothing more than entertaining.
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Confesso que esperava bem menos desse filme, em especial esperando que pusessem o Neeson em cenas de ação bizarra, como fizeram com o Indiana Jones. Mas a escolha do roteiro em tornar o filme um ambiente mais intimista, conduzindo-o pelo carro, foi a mais adequada possível a esse tipo de projeto. Ninguém aguenta mais ver "superhomens" de meia idade fazendo o que quiserem com explosivos e com os bandidos (talvez só o Tom Cruise, vai).
Assim, a história gira em torno de um grupo de financistas que são pegos um a um (entre os quais o nosso protagonista com seus dois filhos), cuja armadilha consiste em instalar bombas em seus respectivos carros e chantageá-los, com a cereja do bolo de que não é possível a eles sair do carro, já que a bomba é detonada devido um dispositivo mecânico que atua pela pressão do corpo (além de ter um detonador à distância).
Como puderam burlar a segurança de pessoas tão influentes? Não sabemos. Ao menos o roteiro se encarrega de mostrar quem está por trás de tal plano, e por mais que seja tudo meio maquineísta, ao menos passa certa credibilidade sobre o porquê conseguiram fazer os planos serem executados.
Ainda assim, é um típico filme norte-americano, com aquele apelo familiar, aquela velha guinada de heroísmo ao final, a polícia como coadjuvante de luxo e lerda.
Ganha pontos por conseguir se sustentar em um espaço claustrofóbico, sendo tenso quando precisa ser. De fato, o carro parece sufocar os personagens e o expectador, e aqui as crianças também ajudaram, numa interpretação bem convincente com a situação.
Há obviamente algumas fugas da realidade, mas diria que o resultado final é positivo, e o tempo de duração do filme também ajuda, já que a ação ocorre num único dia, não há tempo par cenas contemplativas e reflexivas.
Deste modo, ao que se propõe, o filme é extremamente competente. é um ano que filmes de ação estão em alta, não chega ao nível de "Missão impossível", "O pacto" ou "John Wick", mas diverte tanto quanto.
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Neeson gives us a bit more to chew on here than his standard hunt-for-his-daughter/avenge-his-son fare, an actor who lets us see the panic, see the wheels frantically turning and who never shies away from letting us see him sweat.
Director Nimród Antal (“Predators”) does a serviceable job of keeping everything interesting and suspenseful, if not exactly fresh.
An inoffensive but inessential addition to Neeson’s latter-years thriller canon. Less the bus that couldn’t slow down than the car that couldn’t get started.
Retribution seems especially disappointing, however, because of its untapped potential to be cheesily entertaining. The finished product is so bad that I can’t even recommend it for viewing on a streaming service – somewhere it should land very quickly.
Neeson himself has done admirable work making mid-budget throwbacks with a little extra grit and gravitas. But it might be time for him to retire that very particular set of skills.
Liam seemed horribly miscast in this. He looked way too old to be the father - maybe the grandfather! So just that in itself made this film look comically hilarious. The script seemed…incomplete. Would’ve been better if some of the dialogue was replaced with something that would’ve given the movie a bit more edge.
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Its a Liam Neeson movie, so someone is kidnapped and he will save him/her, the action was kinda bad, barely any suspense
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Ein typischer Neeson Film. Schlechte Dialoge, schwache Schauspieler und eine Handlung, die nie voll ausgereizt wird. Er könnte soviel bessere Filme auf die Beine stellen, wenn sie teurer und besseres Personal hätten.
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In Retribution Liam Neeson does not get out of the car to exhibit physical prowess impossible to believe for a septuagenarian, but its director does pretend that he sustains without much to do this lame exercise of tension and suspense that pretends to create thrills and exhibit an imaginary quality that simply cannot conjure. I'd like to emphasize one point unequivocally: this film possesses the same throwaway quality as the numerous movies that are release direct-to-video or VOD featuring Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, and Bruce Willis. The only reason it was released in theaters is because clearly Liam Neeson still has the audience's approval at the box office and the producers know it.
That's how devoid of imagination, caliber and merit this film really is. Referring to it as generic would be a generous description.
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Production Company
StudioCanal,
The Picture Company,
Ombra Films,
TF1 Films Production,
Studio Babelsberg,
Studiocanal Film,
Canal+,
Cine+,
TF1,
Télé Monté Carlo (TMC),
Atresmedia Cine,
Kismet Media,
Talent One,
Vaca Films
Release Date Aug 25, 2023
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating R
Tagline This Summer, all roads lead to the truth.
