No wonder the writers are on strike. Being forced to try to bring freshness to the same tired ideas over and over to get some studio work must be frustrating.
I would be picketing Lionsgate (who is behind this movie) just because it’s really not easy making this kind of thing original.
The latest ripoff — and it literally is because it comes from the 2015 Spanish film El Desconocido, which itself has been remade more than once in the past few years — is the Liam Neeson starring Retribution.
A better title might be Generic Neeson #9. I even looked up the title on IMDb just to make sure this was a new Neeson movie.
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