A Walk Among The Tombstones review

I don't really need much encouragement to see a Liam Neeson film. Okay, so his back-catalogue of movies has had a fair few misses as well as hits (I'm looking at you, Unknown and The Grey), but films I love him in such as Taken and Non-Stop are more than enough to convince me that this actor is actually a talent and despite being relatively typecast, does still make some good'uns.

Unfortunately for me, I think this blind admiration for Neeson may have shot me in the foot when it came to his latest drama. Despite many people telling me it looked a bit naff, I refused to listen and wandered into the cinema with a spring in my step to see A Walk Among The Tombstones.

Is 'The Blacklist' the new, and improved, 'Homeland'?!

New crime drama The Blacklist hit UK screens last Friday on Sky Living and there has been nothing but praise towards it's first two episodes amongst viewers and critics. Twitter was rife with people stating that it was one of the best pilots they've seen, whilst the ratings were going through the roof beating Homeland in the same week.

The shows do bare many similarities in style. Both are serious. Both tackle the idea of crimes on a big scale.  Whilst Homeland circles around the CIA, The Blacklist is all about the FBI, both agencies fighting criminals, but two very different kinds. Whilst the former is based in global politics, the latter concentrates more on individual villains.