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Fortunately, the uber-violent, comic book-style story imagine Quentin Tarantino adapting “A Year Without a Santa Clause” actually works.
It first finds a despondent Chris Cringle bleeding income due to not delivering enough presents because of a preponderance of “youth making poor decisions.”
He barely survives financially with his cookie-making wife Ruth (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and ends up supplementing his income by allowing his elves to build fighter jet parts for the U.S. military.
Life gets worse after Chris puts rich spoiled brat Billy Wehan (Chance Hurstfield) on his naughty list and gives him a lump of coal.
The brilliant conniving punk hires his favorite seasoned killer (Walton Goggins in fine form), a guy already steamed with Santa for forgetting him, to track down the jolly fat man and take revenge.
Blu-Ray Review: Honest Thief
Taken) knows that he has carved a little niche for himself in the unlikely action hero genre.
Honest Thief is a crime drama with a simple plot that fits nicely into that niche.
Tom Dolan (Neeson) has the moniker of the “In-and-Out Bandit,” which he hates because he has stolen over $9 million in cash from 12 banks across 7 states. After meeting Annie (Kate Walsh) and dating her for a year, he decides he wants to turn himself in (along with the money he’s stolen) for a reduced sentence so that he can spend his life with her.
Check out the new DVDs, Blu-rays and streaming shows (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Acorn TV, Sundance Now and Disney+) coming out this week, including
Honest Thief starring Liam Neeson.
~Alexandra Heilbron
Honest Thief – Tom Dolan (Liam Neeson), a former demolitions expert, has over $9 million in cash from robbing banks. When he meets a woman, Annie (Kate Walsh), he doesn’t want to lie to her about his past so he calls the FBI and tells them he’ll hand over the cash in exchange for a reduced sentence. However, the agents who arrive on the scene decide to keep the money for themselves. Just as they’re holding a gun to Tom’s head, a senior FBI agent shows up and they kill him. Knowing the murder will be blamed on him, Tom goes on the run but decides to hunt down the agents to force them to confess to the murder and clear his name. Available December 29 on DVD/Blu-ray/Digital/VOD.