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Aisha Nozari
In case you hadn’t noticed, most of Liam Neeson’s film roles are the same.
The actor is a fan of the whole ‘dude hellbent on revenge’ thing, as one Redditor recently pointed out.
Posting side by side images of Neeson’s films Blacklight, The Marksman, Memory, Honest Thief, The Commuter and Unknown, user Vonnegut_butt quipped: “I hate people who say that Liam Neeson keeps making the same movie over and over.”
Needless to say, the post sparked some funny commentary, but just how similar are each of the films mentioned?
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Well, the poster for all of them features a solo Neeson pulling the sort of expression you might expect from someone keen to bite out your throat, and in most of them he’s also holding a gun.
And how similar are the movies’ plots? Let’s take a look.
In Blacklight, Neeson plays Travis Block, a ‘shadowy government agent who specialises in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed’.
Meanwhile, Neeson plays Jim Hanson in The Marksman, a ‘retired Marine living on the Mexican border who tries to save a mother and son as they are being hunted by a cartel’.
In Memory?, Neeson is Alex Lewis, an ‘expert assassin who refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organisation’. Anyone else starting to see a pattern here?
And Honest Thief, Neeson is professional bank robber Tom Carter, which isn’t as much of a plot twist as you might think, seeing as he ‘goes on the run’ and attempts to bring ‘two crooked FBI agents to justice’.
Neeson is insurance salesman-cum-undercover agent in The Commuter and in Unknown, he’s Dr. Martin Harris, a biochemist who’s forced to track down the person who stole his identity following an accident.
So yes, it does seem like gun-toting badass is not a trope Neeson wants to pivot from.
Now onto the comments. One person wrote beneath Vonnegut_butt’s post: “He does have a very particular set of skills,” while another added: “I think the real problem is his daughter. She is always being kidnapped. It's not Neeson.”
Other comments included: “I love how you got 6 examples without needing to use any of the Taken movies” and “Bruce Willis’ IMDB page has entered the chat.”
However, one Redditor pointed out: “He even jokes about it himself. He’s said things along the lines of when he was young, he was a boxer, athlete, did manual labour, lived in rough areas, and he couldn’t get action roles but now he’s an old, broken down fart, and he’s cast as the tough guy.”