Retribution

When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks. With his kids trapped in the backseat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, an everyday commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the stranger’s increasingly dangerous instructions in a race against time to save his family.

  • Released: 2023-04-07
  • Runtime: 91 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Crime, Thrillers
  • Stars: Liam Neeson, Jack Champion, Arian Moayed, Christian Koerner, Lilly Aspell, Embeth Davidtz, Nedy John Cross, Emily Kusche, Noma Dumezweni, Antonije Stankovic, Matthew Modine, Jerry Kwarteng, Daniel Grave, Luca Márkus, Bernhard Piesk, Michael S. Ruscheinsky, Peter Miklusz, Luc Etienne
  • Director: Nimród Antal
 Comments
  • darrenhutchison - 2 June 2024
    Extremely obvious who it was....
    Yet another Liam Neeson taken-esque thriller. Some of these are decent like 'unknown', but this one was just terrible and so very obvious who the perpetrator is. That bad that even if I put it here who it was it wouldn't be classed as a spoiler, the film spoils itself. The acting is a bit hammy too, you almost want his kids to get blown up as they are both horrible. The police woman is really not believable as a detective at all. The plot is basically a mix of a couple of movies, speed is definitely one of them with phone booth a close second. All in all it's just a terrible movie that mildly grabbed my attention.
  • robloxworld - 17 March 2024
    The bomb that exploded was the movie's plot
    Okay, I want to start this review by saying; This is not a terrible movie, and this movie is enough to get an OK from me atleast. I love Liam Neeson, and he was put into so many vehicles in the past few years: Airplane (Non-stop), Train (The Commuter) and now a car in Retribution, and these kind of "Escape" movies are really fitting for whichever character he portrays, and I don't think this movie started off with a bad premise, because I do believe you can make an epic Neeson movie with a plot like this, the problem is... it wants to be so much more while not hitting the bare minimum first. What I mean is that Neeson's character - Matt Turner is someone who can only say two sentences: "Just listen to me" and "It wasn't me who did it." but regardless, his poor character gets outclassed by Neeson's acting and this really is what pushed the movie to me all the way up to a six out of ten. Matt is on the edge of a divorce, he gets involved in work so much so that he forgets to act as a father figure and during the death-threatening ride he sees that and tries to be a hero for once, and tbh this personality is 90% accurate to the ones Neeson portrayed before, it isn't anything groundbreaking but "Hollywood enough" as the directors would call it, the problem isn't really about the "how" of the story, but rather the "Why", that is why people watch a thriller, and Neeson's stunts are just a cherry on top, but in Retribution's case, there's nothing ordinary or interesting about the "Why did you do it?" part. Minor spoiler: It was the money, but the movie goes so far with this simple premise that it becames a mess, with plot-holes all over the place.

    Okay let's say that the bad guy of the story does not die, why did he sent the money to Liam if he already had it? What would've happened if he shoots? Because you have to be out of your goddamn mind if you think that a man who is scared to death and have kids to protect wouldn't have the balls to do it.. Why did Matt became insane after he stopped at the police? He promised to his wife that he will come back, and decides to do something so nonsense that could easily get himself killed.

    Who exactly is Matt and what did he do? There was some mentioning of somewhere in the desert, of having a life before his family, of being part of a corrupt company and meanwhile he acted like (and believeably so) that he has no clue of ever living a life like that. What the hell was the ending part? Why would someone sit inside a car that has a bomb that could kill him too? How did this man had an entire night to set bombs into like 5 different cars unnoticeably?

    So many questions that just makes this movie shallow and bad as a thriller.

    What I do liked tho is the cinematography, and the child actors, honestly, their role was spot on and the casting was really well done for both of them, and I also loved the music throughout the movie, including this constant "edge" feel, which dissapeared but it was there at the start.

    Overall, if you love Liam Neeson, definetely check this out, Black Light was worse, but don't overthink it, just watch is as an epic "cars exploding for some reason" type of thriller and you should be good to go.
  • mason25 - 20 February 2024
    What an astonishing mess to have been green lit and released
    The acting wasn't horrible, but the character choices were all so moronic. Nearly all of the movies issues would have been solved if anyone involved had more than 4 brain cells.

    Just sharing information would have gone a long long way towards dispelling issues, or at least towards helping the characters interact in a way that would make sense.

    Just telling someone else the exact problem, "there's a bomb under the seat", and then his kids or wife or europol agent MIGHT have just taken him a bit more seriously and listened to him.

    The guy wanting him to do things made it seem as if he could see him the entire time, which would only have made sense if he was tapped in to the vehicles cameras/sensors, but nope, he was doing it the old school way, just plain old following in an invisible car that no one else can see.

    He also demands that he transfer some funds whilst participating in a high speed chase/evasion of the cops.... as if he isn't possibly a bit more busy with driving.

    When the cops have him stopped, the so called sniper has a high powered scope for the 50 or 60 meter shot, on top of that, literally on top of his scope, he has a red dot mounted at a 45°, which makes no sense, the entire goal of sights of any kind are to be as close to the barrels bore as possible, to maintain accuracy. By elevating the red dot 4 inches high and offset, means he's never going to hit anything accurately that isn't at the EXACT distance he set it up for. Any other shot will be off by more than an acceptable amount.