The Marksman

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***The Marksman*** is a 2021 American Action film directed by Robert Lorenz with the written by himself, Chris Charles and Danny Kravitz. It stars Liam Nesson as a reprising the role as portrayed Jim Hanson, with the supporting cast like Katheryn Winnick, Juan Pablo Raba, and Teresa Ruiz. The plot follows a rancher and former Marine living in an Arizona border town who must help a young boy escape a Mexican drug cartel.

Annouced that film was originally titled The Minuteman but just also alternately titled in May 2019. Filming shot in Lorain, Portage County, Chardon, Ohio, and New Mexico on October 2019 before the film wrapped on it. This film released in theatrical release on January 15, 2021 by Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment. It gross $22.7 million against a $23-30 million, making it a box office bomb with receive mixed reviews from film critics who praised Neeson's performance but criticized the film as being formulaic.

## Plot

Former United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper and Vietnam War veteran Jim Hanson, losing his wife and drunkard lives along the Arizona-Mexico border, reporting attempted illegal crossings. One day, while on patrol, he encounters Rosa and her son Miguel, Mexican citizens on the run from the cartel.

Hanson calls border patrol on them before he sees the cartel coming up. He ends the call and gets involved in a shootout with the cartel led by Mauricio. Hanson shoots and kills Mauricio's brother; Rosa is fatally wounded by one of the cartel members. Before she passes, she gives Hanson a note that lists her family's address in Chicago. Hanson reluctantly agrees to take Miguel to her family in Chicago.

Border patrol show up after her death and take in Miguel. One of the cartel members comes in and claims that he's a relative of Miguel. Hanson happens to see their car there and sneaks Miguel out to go to Chicago.

The cartel use fake passports to get into America to follow Hanson and Miguel. A corrupt border patrol officer sees their gang tattoos, recognizes that the passports are fake, and allows them in anyway.

After Hanson uses his credit card to repair his truck, Mauricio tracks the pair to Route 66 in Oklahoma. A corrupt cop follows Hanson and Miguel and pulls them over after they found out where they were. The cop tells Hanson to get in the police vehicle while he “goes and talks to the boy”. The cop takes Hanson's driver's license and keys and searches his pickup truck, but never actually talks to Miguel. Realizing the officer is corrupt, Hanson escapes from the police car, subdues the officer and retrieves his keys. A short while later, Mauricio and the rest of the cartel catch up with the corrupt officer and execute him while Hanson and Miguel watch from a distance.

Hanson and Miguel continue to make their way north. Despite Hanson's personal lack of faith, they stop at a church so that Miguel can have a proper send off for Rosa. While staying at a motel, Hanson bribes the receptionist to not register him and Miguel as guests before the cartel shows up and during the escape, they kill Hanson's dog, Jax.

The patch on the truck's radiator fails while attempting to get away from the cartel and they are forced to stop. Eventually Mauricio and his men catch up to Hanson and a firefight breaks out on a nearby farm. Hanson manages to kill three of the cartel members, but Mauricio captures Miguel.

After a skirmish in which Hanson is stabbed, he manages to get the upper-hand on Mauricio, and leaves him with a single bullet in his gun with the choice to kill himself or return home to Mexico. As Hanson and Miguel leave the farm, they hear a gunshot.

The pair eventually reach Miguel's family in Chicago, and ends with Hanson getting on a city bus. Realizing he's been fatally wounded, he finally closes his eyes and falls unconscious, presumably dying.

## Cast

* Liam Neeson as Jim Hanson, a former U.S. Marines sniper and Vietnam War veteran
* Katheryn Winnick as Sarah Pennington, border patrol agent and step-daughter of Hanson
* Juan Pablo Raba as Mauricio
* Teresa Ruiz as Rosa
* Jacob Perez as Miguel
* Dylan Kenan as Randall Brennan
* Luke Rains as Everett Crawford
* Sean Rosales as Hernando
* Alfredo Quiroz as Carlos

## Production

The project, originally titled *The Minuteman*, was announced in May 2019, with Liam Neeson set to star. In September 2019, it was announced that Winnick and Raba joined the cast of the film.

Principal photography occurred in Lorain, Portage County, and Chardon, Ohio. Filming also occurred in New Mexico, and wrapped in October 2019.

## Release

*The Marksman* was initially scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on January 22, 2021, but was later moved up a week to January 15. It was announced that film would be PVOD on March 23, 2021. Available on Digital, BluRay, DVD and 4k Ultra HD in April 30, 2021.

## Reception

### Box office

As of April 26, 2021, *The Marksman* has grossed $15.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $6.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide of $22.3 million.

The film grossed $3.7 million over the four-day MLK opening weekend, the second Open Road/Neeson title to top the box office during the COVID-19 pandemic after *Honest Thief* the previous October. The film played best in the South, with men making up 57% of the audience, and 72% being over the age of 25. It remained in first the following weekend with $2.03 million, then made $1.2 million in its third weekend and finished third, it was a box office bomb with receive a full minutes timeless of wasted time.

### Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 36% based on 81 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "*The Marksman* benefits from having Liam Neeson in the lead, but this formulaic action thriller should have aimed higher." On Metacritic, it holds a weighted average score of 44 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by PostTrak gave the film a 73% positive score, with 46% saying they would definitely recommend it.

Jeannette Catsoulis of *The New York Times* wrote: "Predictable to a fault, the movie coasts pleasurably on Neeson's seasoned, sad-sweet charisma." Michael O'Sullivan at *The Washington Post* rated the film 2/4 stars, writing that it "proves itself to be the cinematic version of comfort food: satisfyingly familiar but full of starch and empty calories."

Owen Gleiberman at *Variety*, gave a more negative review, stating "Lorenz stages the action with a convincing ebb and flow, but thanks to an undercooked script what happens in between is mostly boilerplate." David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a C– and wrote "...*The Marksman* might be two three-ways short of *The Mule*, but almost everything about it — from its 'get off my lawn' misanthropy to its general take on the uselessness of government in American life — feels geared for a late-career Eastwood vehicle."