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Two brothers descend to lower and lower lows as they try to keep their restaurant afloat.

I wasn't sure about this, so I skipped over it at first. I couldn't find anything else, so I pretty much had to come back around to Black Rabbit. Anyway, it stars Jude Law and Jason Bateman, who can both be good. What I really wanted was a scifi or horror movie because I was feeling kind of burned out on crime dramas. However, I'm glad I watched this.

It's difficult at times to watch the brothers make so many stupid, life-wrecking decisions. The thing is, the series tries to give them justifications for each of these actions. As one exasperated character points out, there's always some lame excuse. If you're one of those people who require the leads to be likeable, this is probably the wrong series for you.

If you're used to watching flawed, kind of slimy characters work their way through neo-noir plots, you'll probably make it through Black Rabbit easily enough, though. The story progresses as a leisurely pace, but I thought the tension and interesting characters made it work. Unfortunately, a few characters did not get enough characterization. I guess they got squeezed out by the flashbacks, heart-to-heart conversations, and arguments, all featuring the brothers.

The atmosphere and tension were great, as was the acting. Seeing Jason Bateman playing a three-time loser was pretty cool, too. I was all set to be skeptical about Jude Law playing his brother, but I thought they pulled it off. By the end of the first episode, I was convinced they were siblings. Although the rest of the cast don't get as much time to shine, the antagonists were also pretty cool. Those roles actually got explored fairly well, unlike the family and friends. In fact, there are so many family and friends, it took an episode or two before I could remember who they all were without checking the IMDb.

If you're looking for something fast-paced with obvious good guys and obvious bad guys, this isn't the show for you. This is pretty much the opposite of a superhero movie. On the other hand, if you're dying for entertainment targeted to an adult demographic, definitely check it out.

A corrupt Nepalese businessman attempts to strongarm a town, and only Liam Neeson, who is in Nepal to climb Mt. Everest, can stop him.

This is by far the stupidest Liam Neeson movie. At times, it sinks down to a 2/10 or 3/10 rating. These are mostly during the action sequences, which are just terrible. The sad thing is that the other scenes are pretty watchable as long as you just want to be entertained and don't care about accuracy or reality.

I can suspend disbelief that for many things, but seeing Liam Neeson fighting professional mercenaries in 2025 is really stretching it. The real problem is that Neeson doesn't seem to have been even trying very hard for years. He's the same character in almost every movie now. No matter what his personality or background, he's just doing the Taken character again. It's like he's on cruise control.

Bingbing Fan, if you can get over the silliness of her character, was pretty cool, though. The rest of the characters were generally even sillier, but when you're dealing with a direct-to-streaming movie by the writer of Armageddon, I guess you can't really expect anything else. There really didn't seem anything in the movie that was supposed to be connected to reality. It probably works best if you imagine that it takes place in a parallel dimension.

You might as well watch it if you've got a Netflix subscription, and it's pretty tolerable if you're used to bad movies. But there are probably better movies you could be watching instead.

A group of miners up in the frozen North get stuck in a cave-in. Only Liam Neeson, a trucker who can't hold a job, can save them.

I don't really know why I watched this. I don't like trucker movies, disaster movies, or survival movies. I was hoping that the cast would make it worthwhile. I made it all the way to the end, which I guess is saying something when you know my biases, but it's not a movie that I can recommend.

The plot is basically just Sorcerer transposed to Winnipeg. A lot of people love Sorcerer, but I don't. If I had known that this would follow the premise of Sorcerer so closely, I might not have watched it. Still, I figured there was still hope, and maybe in the hands a better writer-director, there might have been some. It turned out to be a bit boring and predictable.

I don't think there was anything wrong with the actors, really. I felt that the dialogue and plot were what brought down the movie. Amber Midthunder, who played a hot-headed and opinionated trucker, was pretty cool. If the movie had been more about her than Liam Neeson's boring character, I think I'd have liked this better.

The effects are low budget, I suppose, but I thought they were fine for something streaming on Netflix. Don't go in with unrealistic expectations, and you should be fine. I can't really speak to the realism of what it's like to be a truck driver, but it did seem a bit silly and fanciful at times. If you're the kind of person who cares about that, you might skip this movie. It feels about as realistic as a direct-to-video movie from the 1980s sometimes.

For something on Netflix, I guess it's passable. I usually like the junky Netflix original movies, which often seem targeted pretty close to my demographic. This one wasn't, leaving me a bit cold.