Career criminal Neeson finds an opportunity to make amends with his estranged son Kinnaman… all he has to do is save his life a few dozen times in a single night from a mob of gun toting cronies led by crime boss Harris. D'Onofrio makes for a useful plot device, but Nolte's appearance (which was originally more than just one scene) comes too late in the movie to have any impact. Perhaps it would've been more interesting if it was straight-edge Kinnaman that died and Neeson out for revenge instead of the other way around—but as it turns out, director Collet-Serra and writer Ingelsby decided to go cookie-cutter with characters who had far more potential if they weren't used in such a cliché plot.
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