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Movie ID: 734
RT slug: blacklight_2022
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blacklight_2022
Release year: 2022
Runtime: 104 mins
Wide release date: 2022-02-11
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 11%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Directors: Mark Williams
Writers: Brandon Reavis, Mark Williams, Nick May
Producers: Alev Aydin, Mark Williams, Myles Nestel, Paul Currie
MPAA rating: PG-13
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-14 16:15:41
Updated: 2026-06-14 16:15:41
A covert government operative uncovers a conspiracy targeting U.S. citizens and must confront the people he once protected.
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Canonical reviews: 105
Canonical fresh: 12
Canonical rotten: 93
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 11%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-14 16:04:54
Snapshot Tomatometer: 11%
Snapshot review count: 105
Snapshot fresh count: 12
Snapshot rotten count: 93
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1277 (full_snapshot)
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| Open Road Films | distributor |
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| 1 | Liam Neeson | Travis Block |
| 2 | Aidan Quinn | Gabriel Robinson |
| 3 | Emmy Raver-Lampman | Mira Jones |
| 4 | Taylor John Smith | Dusty Crane |
| 5 | Yael Stone | Helen Davidson |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 167261 | Justin Kim | Loud and Clear Reviews | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2025-01-06T23:52:54Z | 2025-01-06 23:52:54 | People are already tired of “Liam Neeson kills everyone” action movies …and Blacklight will certainly not change their minds. |
| 167262 | Rick Bentley | KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA) | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2023-08-10T05:56:57Z | 2023-08-10 05:56:57 | Neeson gets the benefit of the doubt one more time. |
| 167263 | Zach Pope | Zach Pope Reviews | Rotten | — | 2023-07-25T22:21:25Z | 2023-07-25 22:21:25 | All I can say “It Was Fine” I wanted more from this generic action film… & Liam Neeson |
| 167264 | Pablo O. Scholz | Clarín | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-12-29T16:52:39Z | 2022-12-29 16:52:39 | If you've seen a film with an armed Neeson, the rest. is more or less predictable. Well-filmed chase scenes and dozens of victims. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167265 | Cris Kennedy | The Canberra Times (Australia) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-08-10T19:58:24Z | 2022-08-10 19:58:24 | I love me a Liam Neeson film. I love his late career resurgence. I love his "special set of skills". But there are no catchphrases for Neeson this time around... |
| 167266 | Erick Estrada | Cinegarage | Rotten | — | 2022-06-15T18:28:49Z | 2022-06-15 18:28:49 | An absolute disaster. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167267 | Terry Staunton | Radio Times | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-06-08T19:08:13Z | 2022-06-08 19:08:13 | Neeson's default setting of furrowed brow and steely-eyed determination are present and correct, and the action sequences are well choreographed, if unsurprising. |
| 167268 | Josh Parham | Next Best Picture | Rotten | 4/10 | 2022-06-08T02:10:41Z | 2022-06-08 02:10:41 | Obviously, Neeson can be a gifted actor, but this genre has not been the arena to display that talent, and by this point, the tried and true methods that would normally sustain a film like this are wearing thin. |
| 167269 | Ruben Peralta Rigaud | Cocalecas | Rotten | — | 2022-05-16T20:12:44Z | 2022-05-16 20:12:44 | Never comes close to being interesting or entertaining. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 167270 | Allison Rose | FlickDirect | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-05-10T14:40:21Z | 2022-05-10 14:40:21 | The best way to sum up this movie is that I still have no idea why the title is Blacklight. |
| 167271 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2022-05-06T23:05:19Z | 2022-05-06 23:05:19 | A few of Neeson's films in this "last action hero" mode have been good, but the running-on-empty Blacklight is the worst one yet. |
| 167272 | Eddie Harrison | film-authority.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-04-17T09:21:49Z | 2022-04-17 09:21:49 | Blacklight snaps back to the kind of cartoon conspiracy that was out-dated by the 70s |
| 167273 | Matthew Passantino | Big Picture Big Sound | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-03-31T15:23:30Z | 2022-03-31 15:23:30 | Neeson once pledged to put down his gun, and four movies after that declaration, he still hasn't. It's time. |
| 167274 | Joel Copling | Spectrum Culture | Rotten | — | 2022-03-21T01:59:30Z | 2022-03-21 01:59:30 | Neesons late-career action shift sometimes pays dividends, but this time, the principal is genuinely idiotic. |
| 167275 | Lynn Venhaus | KTRS Radio (St. Louis) | Rotten | D | 2022-03-13T08:51:09Z | 2022-03-13 08:51:09 | Just a ridiculous movie. |
| 167276 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-03-04T20:21:46Z | 2022-03-04 20:21:46 | ...a persistently middle-of-the-road thriller... |
| 167277 | Allen Adams | The Maine Edge | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-03-02T17:36:11Z | 2022-03-02 17:36:11 | Another disposable piece of geriaction that will keep Liam Neeson in Earl Grey and blazers for a few more months. |
| 167278 | Debopriyaa Dutta | Screen Rant | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-03-01T18:19:38Z | 2022-03-01 18:19:38 | Although interesting enough to keep audiences hooked with its tense car chases and shootouts, Blacklight sets no new thrills for hardcore action fans. |
| 167279 | Andy Klein | FilmWeek (LAist) | Rotten | — | 2022-02-24T02:18:09Z | 2022-02-24 02:18:09 | It's very by-the-numbers. Neeson does this without even breaking a sweat, really. |
| 167280 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 5/10 | 2022-02-23T19:28:11Z | 2022-02-23 19:28:11 | Typical Liam Neeson movie - one man against a ton of bad guys. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. This one is mildly entertaining. |
| 167281 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Rotten | C | 2022-02-22T13:41:43Z | 2022-02-22 13:41:43 | The usual conventional Liam Neeson action pic. |
| 167282 | Maxance Vincent | Cultured Vultures | Rotten | 2/10 | 2022-02-20T10:19:16Z | 2022-02-20 10:19:16 | Liam Neeson cant save Blacklight from being yet another dull political thriller with almost nothing to offer, and nothing of interest to say. |
| 167283 | Sarah Gopaul | Digital Journal | Rotten | — | 2022-02-19T01:12:12Z | 2022-02-19 01:12:12 | The film is a fairly straightforward investigative thriller livened up with the occasional shootout as the powers at risk try to prevent any damaging new discoveries. |
| 167284 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Common Sense Media | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-02-19T00:08:53Z | 2022-02-19 00:08:53 | There are hints that an earlier draft of the screenplay might once have had some cutting political commentary, but this action movie has been smoothed out so much that it's shopworn and generic. |
| 167285 | Carey-Ann Pawsey | Orca Sound | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-02-18T14:49:33Z | 2022-02-18 14:49:33 | Another film in a seemingly endless string of the ageless wonder Liam Neeson starring in an action film. This is another colour by numbers action film. |
| 167286 | Rob Hunter | Film School Rejects | Rotten | — | 2022-02-18T09:10:32Z | 2022-02-18 09:10:32 | Even the brightest of lights wont find anything of value here. |
| 167287 | Nick Johnston | Vanyaland | Fresh | — | 2022-02-18T01:39:49Z | 2022-02-18 01:39:49 | One thing that can be said for [Neeson] is that there’s a genuine comfort in his presence in these films that makes even the most outright mediocre of them feel like appointment viewing. |
| 167288 | David Stratton | The Australian | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-02-17T21:48:15Z | 2022-02-17 21:48:15 | Plenty of fun is provided by trying to spot the local locations where the reckless car chases were filmed. |
| 167289 | Erik Childress | eFilmCritic.com | Rotten | 1/4 | 2022-02-16T21:28:29Z | 2022-02-16 21:28:29 | The skills are no longer special for Liam Neeson in the hands of filmmakers who craft a dopey conspiracy around the dumbest government officials in a plot as empty as the school his granddaughter attends. |
| 167290 | Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-02-16T18:45:05Z | 2022-02-16 18:45:05 | They should know the one thing you really don’t want to do is mess with Liam Neeson’s family, because the man has a very particular — Taste in screenplays. |
| 167291 | Robert Denerstein | Denerstein Unleashed | Rotten | — | 2022-02-16T00:37:47Z | 2022-02-16 00:37:47 | Instead of an expose about unbridled ambition we get another movie that feels as if it has rolled off the Neeson assembly line. |
| 167292 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Rotten | C- | 2022-02-15T22:01:39Z | 2022-02-15 22:01:39 | Operates on the assumption that viewers have either never seen an FBI thriller or crave the most clich elements imaginable from that genre. |
| 167293 | Louisa Moore | Screen Zealots | Fresh | — | 2022-02-15T08:32:39Z | 2022-02-15 08:32:39 | This by-the-book action thriller isn't exceptional cinema by any means, but it is good enough, and Neeson is given the spotlight to do what he does exceedingly well. Say what you will, but he still has the star power to carry a film. |
| 167294 | Peter Sobczynski | eFilmCritic.com | Rotten | — | 2022-02-14T23:10:43Z | 2022-02-14 23:10:43 | The screenplay feels like something that might have once been found at the bottom of a pile of scripts rejected by Cannon Films for being too puerile and derivative. |
| 167295 | Michael Ward | Should I See It | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2022-02-13T18:10:26Z | 2022-02-13 18:10:26 | ...generates next to no illumination. |
| 167296 | Carla Hay | Culture Mix | Rotten | — | 2022-02-12T22:07:44Z | 2022-02-12 22:07:44 | Ever since the success of the Taken movie series, Liam Neeson has dragged himself down a shameless and shoddy hole of Taken ripoff movies. Blacklight is one of the worst. |
| 167297 | Dan Buffa | KSDK News (St. Louis) | Rotten | D | 2022-02-12T20:49:15Z | 2022-02-12 20:49:15 | Little of it is memorable, even for the fourth choice at your neighborhood Redbox. The score is stock music borrowed from sixty other action films, spliced together from Lorenzo Lamas's greatest hits and a couple Jean-Claude Van Damme bangers. |
| 167298 | Daniel M. Kimmel | North Shore Movies | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-02-12T20:00:15Z | 2022-02-12 20:00:15 | The tagline for the movie is Theyre gonna need more men. What they really needed was more originality and, just maybe, a role that utilizes Neesons acting abilities and not merely his ability to look tough holding a gun. |
| 167299 | Joe Friar | Fort Worth Report | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-02-12T18:23:20Z | 2022-02-12 18:23:20 | Liam Neesons very particular set of skills is no match for the mediocre script. |
| 167300 | Dana Han-Klein | We're Watching What?! | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-02-12T05:03:22Z | 2022-02-12 05:03:22 | Unfortunately another lackluster entry into the Neeson-verse as he continues to make films that are xeroxes of xeroxes of the "Taken" template. There were a few moments that indicated there could have been a Nic Cage esque wildness, but the spark fizzled. |
| 167301 | Austin Burke | Austin Burke/Flick Fan Nation | Rotten | 4/10 | 2022-02-12T02:55:34Z | 2022-02-12 02:55:34 | Blacklight is as unoriginal as any action movie you will see this year, even if Neeson proves he still has it. |
| 167302 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2022-02-12T00:47:38Z | 2022-02-12 00:47:38 | Does Liam Neeson kick butt and take names? Yes, he does... but it's still nowhere the quality of the Taken films. |
| 167303 | Thelma Adams | AARP Movies for Grownups | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-02-12T00:14:35Z | 2022-02-12 00:14:35 | This melancholy actioner with a cliché-ridden script highlights a moral man contemplating retirement as his past catches up with him — along with his achy knee joints and feet. But Neeson’s still got game. |
| 167304 | Keith Garlington | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Rotten | 83/100 | 2022-02-12T00:07:45Z | 2022-02-12 00:07:45 | Blacklight may have enough to win over the most ardent fans of these Neeson thrillers. For everyone else, this is more of the same but with even less energy and grit. |
| 167305 | Christopher Cross | Tilt Magazine | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-02-11T22:53:04Z | 2022-02-11 22:53:04 | Blacklight struggles to find anything unique to hinge itself upon, wasting its cast for a thriller that cant muster up any thrills. |
| 167306 | Jonathan W. Hickman | The Newnan Times-Herald | Rotten | 4/10 | 2022-02-11T22:02:50Z | 2022-02-11 22:02:50 | With fists at the ready, Neeson is the steadfast aged action hero, but the confusing nature of the plot (who is who and what are their motivations) makes it difficult to engage with any characters dilemma. |
| 167307 | Pamela Powell | Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam | Rotten | 1.0/4.0 | 2022-02-11T20:23:20Z | 2022-02-11 20:23:20 | Neeson doesn't even try to convince us of his character's tough persona...he dials in this performance on a rotary phone long distance connected by an operator at a switchboard. |
| 167308 | Bilge Ebiri | New York Magazine/Vulture | Rotten | — | 2022-02-11T20:01:47Z | 2022-02-11 20:01:47 | No element of the narrative is presented with the modicum of detail required to make us care... which is a shame, because if you squint really hard you could see the beginnings of an intriguing political thriller in there somewhere. |
| 167309 | Liam Lacey | Original Cin | Rotten | D | 2022-02-11T19:41:54Z | 2022-02-11 19:41:54 | Though the subject of deep state surveillance and fascistic politics rings topical, Liam Neesons save-the-family thriller lacks excitement and has minimal credibility. |
| 167310 | Joe Morgenstern | Wall Street Journal | Rotten | — | 2022-02-11T18:52:50Z | 2022-02-11 18:52:50 | One could even argue that it’s not a movie at all, only a rusted-out recycling bin of ill-fitting themes, notions, poses, conventions, affectations, tropes, tropelets and inert snippets of dialogue from other movies. |
| 167311 | Leo Brady | AMovieGuy.com | Rotten | 1/4 | 2022-02-11T18:42:14Z | 2022-02-11 18:42:14 | There comes a time when you hope Liam Neeson realizes the time to get out of the action movie business and sadly that moment is now. |
| 167312 | Jason Fraley | WTOP (Washington, D.C.) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-02-11T18:39:47Z | 2022-02-11 18:39:47 | The on-the-nose dialogue is filled with exposition as characters say exactly what theyre thinking. The advice wouldnt be to follow the money. It would be to follow the rewrites. |
| 167313 | James Verniere | Boston Herald | Rotten | C | 2022-02-11T18:23:57Z | 2022-02-11 18:23:57 | Neeson in another Taken-type role. But it was only good the first time. This one is not good. |
| 167314 | Chris Knight | National Post | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2022-02-11T17:51:21Z | 2022-02-11 17:51:21 | There are several unintentionally meaningful lines in Blacklight, the new Liam Neeson action thriller... One of them -- “In hindsight, I suspect I made a poor career choice” -- might be the actor talking about this very movie. |
| 167315 | Rain Jokinen | MullingMovies.com | Rotten | — | 2022-02-11T17:41:22Z | 2022-02-11 17:41:22 | Even a few good car chases and 'splosions aren't enough to make the movie even half-way enjoyable. I don't want Liam Neeson to retire, but perhaps the Liam Neeson genre should. |
| 167316 | Vincent Mancini | Uproxx | Rotten | D+ | 2022-02-11T17:04:21Z | 2022-02-11 17:04:21 | The root of these Taken movies is slapstick, and Liam Neeson doesn't bonk nor gouge anyone often or creatively enough to justify this one. |
| 167317 | Jim Judy | Screen It! | Rotten | 4/10 | 2022-02-11T16:49:24Z | 2022-02-11 16:49:24 | If you enjoy the actor doing this sort of thing, you might be entertained enough. But don't look too deeply with a blacklight or you'll shine too much light on the flick's issues to ignore seeing them. |
| 167318 | Glenn Kenny | RogerEbert.com | Rotten | 1/4 | 2022-02-11T16:41:10Z | 2022-02-11 16:41:10 | The script is, gross opportunism aside, dismally threadbare. |
| 167319 | Aaron Neuwirth | We Live Entertainment | Rotten | 3/10 | 2022-02-11T16:37:27Z | 2022-02-11 16:37:27 | This conspiracy thriller has no pulse. |
| 167320 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Rotten | — | 2022-02-11T15:25:48Z | 2022-02-11 15:25:48 | Even by the standards of low-budget vigilante thrillers starring Liam Neeson, this threadbare potboiler is too derivative to yield any meaningful suspense. |
| 167321 | Robert Abele | Los Angeles Times | Rotten | — | 2022-02-11T14:10:42Z | 2022-02-11 14:10:42 | The kind of low-wattage, paint-by-numbers thriller that usually signifies a perilous turn toward the action purgatory that is cheap, direct-to-nowhere fare. |
| 167322 | Caffeinated Clint | Moviehole | Rotten | — | 2022-02-11T06:14:24Z | 2022-02-11 06:14:24 | This time it's cinemagoers being Taken (for a ride) |
| 167323 | Anthony Morris | It's Better in the Dark | Rotten | 3/5 | 2022-02-11T05:11:02Z | 2022-02-11 05:11:02 | Neeson is given various bits of personal business to keep him occupied, and there are a handful of striking and well thought out action scenes, but at times this feels like he's been dropped into a story that really doesn't need him. |
| 167324 | Steven Prokopy | Third Coast Review | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-02-11T04:21:06Z | 2022-02-11 04:21:06 | Let's be honest, Blacklight is your standard-issue Liam Neeson offering... |
| 167325 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Rotten | D | 2022-02-11T03:31:06Z | 2022-02-11 03:31:06 | The Steven Seagalization of Liam Neeson continues in this inane would-be action thriller about skullduggery at the FBI. |
| 167326 | Kelly Vance | East Bay Express | Rotten | — | 2022-02-11T01:52:42Z | 2022-02-11 01:52:42 | Halfway through Blacklight we can already snuggle down with our popcorn, assured that Travis is going to save democracy. |
| 167327 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-02-11T01:52:08Z | 2022-02-11 01:52:08 | Like last year’s Honest Thief and The Ice Road, this barely rises above direct-to-DVD quality and feels like an extended episode of a US police procedural. |
| 167328 | Matt Rodriguez | Shakefire | Rotten | 0.5/5 | 2022-02-11T01:01:08Z | 2022-02-11 01:01:08 | An action thriller that fails to thrill at every level. |
| 167329 | Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press | Rotten | 1/4 | 2022-02-11T00:27:46Z | 2022-02-11 00:27:46 | As for Neeson, what can we say? He could keep doing this ’til he’s 80, but surely there’s something better out there. As the film’s closing song goes, “every story needs a hero.” True. But every hero also needs a story. A better one. |
| 167330 | Amy Nicholson | New York Times | Rotten | C+ | 2022-02-10T22:33:48Z | 2022-02-10 22:33:48 | The twist in the screenplay is that the story sticks with the point of view of Neesons nave brute, who in an ordinary film would be a no-name heavy offed in the third act. Am I the good guy? he asks. Not really. |
| 167331 | Adam Graham | Detroit News | Rotten | C- | 2022-02-10T21:10:31Z | 2022-02-10 21:10:31 | A by-the-numbers action thriller lacking in both action and thrills. |
| 167332 | MaryAnn Johanson | Flick Filosopher | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-02-10T20:16:34Z | 2022-02-10 20:16:34 | Feels less like a movie than it does a hostage video. Poor Liam Neeson isnt trying to hide how exhausted and trapped he is in his cinematic hamster wheel of cheap, violent revenge thrillers. Its sad. |
| 167333 | Cain Noble-Davies | FILMINK (Australia) | Rotten | 5/20 | 2022-02-10T19:49:33Z | 2022-02-10 19:49:33 | [Blacklight], even for the dime-a-dozen sub-genre it occupies, is especially misguided. |
| 167334 | Chris Bumbray | JoBlo's Movie Network | Rotten | — | 2022-02-10T19:20:36Z | 2022-02-10 19:20:36 | The Neeson actioners are getting pretty bad. It's a shame Hollywood seems bent on turning him into Cannon-era Charles Bronson. |
| 167335 | Travis Hopson | Punch Drunk Critics | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-02-10T19:07:11Z | 2022-02-10 19:07:11 | Blacklight has Neeson doing what he can easily do in his sleep, and sadly it never gives him a reason to wake up. |
| 167336 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2022-02-10T17:01:18Z | 2022-02-10 17:01:18 | The movie ... struggles even to fulfill its minimal goals. |
| 167337 | Julian Lytle | idobi.com | Rotten | F | 2022-02-10T16:57:59Z | 2022-02-10 16:57:59 | I dont know why this movie is called Blacklight or why they still have Liam Neeson trying to run and beat people up but they need to stop. |
| 167338 | Amie Simon | Three Imaginary Girls | Rotten | — | 2022-02-10T16:38:01Z | 2022-02-10 16:38:01 | In addition to the action being pretty lackluster, theres a lot of heavy-handed commentary on the state of our country ... And honestly, theres no real stakes to fret over so theres nothing about the plot that kept me invested. |
| 167339 | Matt Lynch | In Review Online | Rotten | — | 2022-02-10T16:07:46Z | 2022-02-10 16:07:46 | All told, Blacklight is a shockingly boring film, and thats when its not merely a carbon copy of every other Neeson tough-guy thriller. |
| 167340 | Tom Santilli | Movie Show Plus | Rotten | C- | 2022-02-10T15:55:39Z | 2022-02-10 15:55:39 | You would need to hold a black light up to find even the faintest trace of excitement in Blacklight. |
| 167341 | Danielle Solzman | Solzy at the Movies | Rotten | — | 2022-02-10T15:54:22Z | 2022-02-10 15:54:22 | Unless it is super urgent that you see Blacklight in theaters, it's better to just save the money instead. |
| 167342 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-02-10T14:55:33Z | 2022-02-10 14:55:33 | Once again, Neeson plays the tough guy clich, a loner fighting against impossible odds, using his special set of skills to even scores and, in doing so, invites comparisons to other, better movies. |
| 167343 | Matt Conway | Battle Royale With Cheese | Rotten | — | 2022-02-10T14:40:13Z | 2022-02-10 14:40:13 | Blacklight represents another disappointing step down in quality and creativity for Neesons action star resume. |
| 167344 | Trace Sauveur | Austin Chronicle | Rotten | — | 2022-02-10T13:37:15Z | 2022-02-10 13:37:15 | The world of government secrets and undercover agents should be a lot more exciting than what Blacklight has to offer. |
| 167345 | James Berardinelli | ReelViews | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2022-02-10T13:36:21Z | 2022-02-10 13:36:21 | It has gotten to the point where February seems incomplete with one of these Neeson paydays. But, my God, have they started to stink. |
| 167346 | Michael O'Sullivan | Washington Post | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-02-10T13:05:25Z | 2022-02-10 13:05:25 | For fans of Neeson as action hero, “Blacklight” may be something of a disappointment, at least measuring it against the yardstick of previous thrillers in this particular branch of the actor’s body of work. |
| 167347 | Avi Offer | NYC Movie Guru | Rotten | 5.0214718824/10 | 2022-02-10T06:44:14Z | 2022-02-10 06:44:14 | Lackluster, toothless and forgettable while low on thrills, suspense and intrigue. |
| 167348 | Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-02-10T02:49:36Z | 2022-02-10 02:49:36 | Blacklight, is yet another in this line of generic Liam Neeson action flicks, one that will best be remembered if it's remembered at all as the movie where Canberra, Australia unconvincingly doubles for Washington, DC. |
| 167349 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-02-10T00:33:05Z | 2022-02-10 00:33:05 | There have been some pretty good Liam Neeson action movies of late. Unfortunately, his latest effort isn't much chop...The film's tangled plot is a stumblebum affair...The thin production values have a distinctly cranked-out look. |
| 167350 | Michael Clark | Epoch Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-02-09T23:35:24Z | 2022-02-09 23:35:24 | Neeson is wasting his time and is frittering away his career in low rent roles such as this; those which are usually earmarked for any of the many cast members of the The Expendables franchise. He's serving up dollar menu burgers full-time. |
| 167351 | Randy Myers | San Jose Mercury News | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-02-09T21:14:01Z | 2022-02-09 21:14:01 | To its credit, “Blacklight” is watchable, and unintentionally laughable, but it could have been a lot better. |
| 167352 | Fred Topel | United Press International | Fresh | — | 2022-02-09T21:13:26Z | 2022-02-09 21:13:26 | Don't worry about delusions of grandeur threatening a good time. These histrionics are interrupted frequently enough by thrilling scenes that they don't weigh it down. |
| 167353 | Barry Hertz | Globe and Mail | Rotten | — | 2022-02-09T21:13:22Z | 2022-02-09 21:13:22 | You will walk away... with many, many, many questions. The first one being: Can I please have my money and 107 minutes back? |
| 167354 | Julian Roman | MovieWeb | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2022-02-09T20:54:57Z | 2022-02-09 20:54:57 | Blacklight is a tedious, deep state conspiracy actioner that misfires on all fronts. Liam Neeson, normally a sure bet for action junkies, looks lost in an obvious and melodramatic narrative. |
| 167355 | Chase Beck | Battleship Pretension | Rotten | — | 2022-02-09T20:52:29Z | 2022-02-09 20:52:29 | ...maybe check it out after you have exhausted the rest of Neesons film catalog. |
| 167356 | Robert Kojder | Flickering Myth | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2022-02-09T20:44:04Z | 2022-02-09 20:44:04 | Blacklight is as irredeemable as the FBI directors actions throughout |
| 167357 | Brian Orndorf | Blu-ray.com | Rotten | D+ | 2022-02-09T20:20:36Z | 2022-02-09 20:20:36 | The cheap high of Neeson's action hero years is missing from Blacklight, which doesn't know exactly what it wants to be, leaving the feature overly processed and ill-conceived. |
| 167358 | Nate Adams | The Only Critic | Rotten | C- | 2022-02-09T19:41:12Z | 2022-02-09 19:41:12 | Blacklight is another flimsy action clunker thatll come and go without so much as a whimper. |
| 167359 | Craig D. Lindsey | AV Club | Rotten | D | 2022-02-09T19:14:02Z | 2022-02-09 19:14:02 | Neeson has basically become a hero for hire, going through the same old motions in one silly shoot-’em-up after another. We already have one Bruce Willis. We don’t need two. |
| 167360 | Joey Magidson | Awards Radar | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-02-09T18:35:40Z | 2022-02-09 18:35:40 | Unless youre a massive Liam Neeson fan, you need not apply here. Even then, there are better options for Neeson kicking some ass than Blacklight. |
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