Between Liam Neeson and action cinema, it’s a great love story. Blacklight by Mark Williams confirms this reciprocal affection by offering the sixty-something actor a new role as vindicators. This time he declares war on a secret department of the FBI which has betrayed him and is attacking his family (a very bad idea when you have seen the actor’s previous films).
Since Taken (2008), the Irish actor has made a specialty of embodying revengeful fighting fans whom his massive figure, his natural phlegm and his talent for martial arts make very effective. Very dynamic fights prove that Liam Neeson is still in Olympic form at almost 70 years old spring which he will celebrate next June. “I can’t see myself retiring just yet because I’m always offered exciting roles and I prefer action to inaction,” he told 20 minutes.
No stunts, fights
But don’t tell Liam Neeson that he does his own stunts. “Stunts are when you jump out of a window, for example, and for this kind of thing, there are professional stuntmen! I don’t do this type of practice because I’m not Tom Cruise. Me, what interests me are the fights because I like to fight, but only in the cinema. » The director of fights Mark Wanselow has become a regular collaborator of the actor for several years. “We rehearse and we rehearse to achieve such fluidity that the viewer has the impression that we are playing the scene for the first time while everything is choreographed to the millimeter”, says the actor.
If the political subtext of the film does not lack interest in denouncing villainous acts, the fight largely takes precedence in this film signed by Mark Williams who had already directed Liam Neeson in The Good Criminal and The Veteran. “Shooting with innovative techniques, such as LED Wall Light and a video game engine that allow you to place yourself in virtual settings, has allowed us to strengthen our efficiency in complete safety”, recognizes Liam Neeson. Blacklight does not revolutionize the action thriller, but its nervousness allows it to fulfill its contract of entertainment rich in discharges of adrenaline.