COVID-Cinema 2020 - Honest Thief

Honest Thief is the latest Liam Neeson action picture. Also starring Kate Walsh, Anthony Ramos as well as Aussie born Jai Courtney.

The thriller follows a former bank robber who turns himself into authorities, only to be set up by Courtney & Ramos. No spoiler alerts but the song bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do.... came to mind with these crooked cops.

Honest Thief actually got a cinema release overseas (which is rare these days) and felt to me like Unhinged. A special plot, but a return to more regular B grade action films that can actually get an audience. For my mid Sunday session, it was actually fairly well attended. At least half the small cinema was full. This compared with one person (me) in the last three films, this is a solid result.

Clocking in at under 100 minutes, the film does not waste time with getting to its car chases and action sequences. I love how Liam Neeson and Jai Courtney just dust themselves off falling out of a level two hotel room window.

Honest Thief is nothing super original but it was a decent trip to the cinema. If B grade action films are your thing, which for me, they are!

3 Stars.