‘Absolution’ Review: The Liam Neeson Action Revenge Genre Starts to Wind Down as He Plays an Enforcer with Memory Issues

“Absolution” wants to be more than a dumb action film. Neeson takes you part of the way there, but in its atmospheric way the movie is cobbled together out of so many standard yet disparate devices that it can feel as pumped-up as the cliché thriller it’s trying not to be.
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