The Liability

I just finished watching this movie and I expected it to be much better honestly. Certainly when I saw who was playing in this movie. Don't get me wrong the actors were all good. I can't fault any of them for the role they played. It's just that the story is a little bit disappointing. It's not realistic enough and a little bit bland. For a professional hit-man I found that he was doing a lot of mistakes and everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I also would not categorize it under humor because you're not going to laugh a lot. Well at least not me because I didn't laugh once. All in all it's not a bad movie. It's just fine to watch once and then forget about it.

Here in England the title is now "The Hitman's Apprentice" & i checked it out on Netflix because i like the rising star JACK O'CONNELL as he's been in a few really good films lately such as "71 & 300: Rise of an Empire & i think he'd one of the best rising British actors working today!!!

Now Tim Roth is abit of a British actor legend with amount of Classic films he's starred in like RESERVOIR DOGS & PULP FICTION for example & i read that one of Jack's favourite actors is Tim Roth so it's cool having these two great British actors teamed up.

Now the story is very basic & it's a Low-budget affair but it's entertaining enough with it's comical crime happenings & dark humour as O'connell plays a 19yr old waster who has to do a driving job for his mum's corrupted gangster boyfriend & that job has him driving for a hitman named Roy (Roth) & they drive around the countryside & its winter & a few darkly funny things happen with certain "Targets" & they end up crossing paths with an extremely beautiful lady who has is on her own path of vengeance for her missing sister that is all connected to O'Connell's mum's vile boyfriend & there's a darker theme of Human trafficking at its centre. There's a fun humourous chemistry between funny O'connell & serious Roth as they both start to like each other on this wild journey of murder & mayhem but really its a short British crime Thriller that never really gets very deep but the two leads pairing is what gives it some life & fun in an otherwise pretty mundane film.

It's an easy watch & not a bad film but it's nothing exciting either.

Tim Roth stars in The Liability as a hired assassin who takes on a rich gangster boss's stepson on as a driver. The nineteen year old boy, Adam, is eager to learn about the criminal world. Roy(Roth) has the kid drive to a desolate area for a hit. His first test is to cut off the victims hand with an axe to emulate the pattern of a serial killer preying on the area. A beautiful woman with no name (Talulah Riley), a stunning actress, by the way, shows up and throws a monkey wrench into the crime scene. It then becomes a cat and mouse game between the three with some violent moments with occasional dry British humor mixed in. The three main players are all excellent, and although the ending is a bit too predictable, Roth's laid back wise ass attitude makes the film worth watching.

(50%) Rising star Jack O'Connell comes very near to shinning in this crime drama, but sadly the film just doesn't have what it takes to supplement his talent owing in no small part to a script that just is quite as good as it needs to be. So this is no classic, but it's still a decent watch and way better than the lower end British crime/hooligan sludge you see cluttering the direct to DVD section. Tim Roth is as you'd expect in support (perfectly fine), and the direction tries to lift the somewhat awkwardly told plot, it's just a shame this just doesn't have the depth. Overall not a bad film at all, and worth a look for O'Connell in a early starring role, just don't expect a low budget marvel.

As the German title suggests ... though it does sound a bit like doomsday or something else. Whatever you think of a title, "Liability" is more accurate than the German title. The thriller is pretty straight forward. The story is self explanatory, but Tim Roth does add a lot of Gravita to it. You could almost say he kind of saves the movie all by himself, even though the female lead is beautiful.

The female lead might have a reason for being on screen, but ultimately she is just put on. The very ending feels like it is being dropped on the viewer, which is a bad feeling. The main bad guy, does a great job, but he isn't on screen that much, which is kind of a shame. A nice little thriller, nothing more nothing less