The murder of his wife affects badly on him and leads a drug dealer to ask for help from a former cop, who refuses the case first, but after knowing that there are many similar cases of that brutal murder, the thing that brings terrible for him and makes him struggle against revealing the truth.
As nauseating as the film's inventive sadisms can be, Frank succeeds far more in the details than in the larger picture that tries to relate this world to ours.
There are nice moments of humour and the nostalgic 1990s feel, the change in technology and the shadow of Y2K works well even if it makes some of us feel our age.
While we're waiting for the release of Taken 3, the man who was Oskar Schindler is keeping us in an action hero frame of mind with the moody-but-essentially-empty A Walk Among the Tombstones.
Frank's film is much more of a noir outing than a straight action feature, and Neeson slips right into the tone and feel of the hard-boiled detective offering.
