{"id":2317750,"date":"2026-03-08T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2317750"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:38:02","slug":"prime-videos-no-1-action-thriller-is-this-liam-neeson-movie-no-one-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prime-videos-no-1-action-thriller-is-this-liam-neeson-movie-no-one-remembers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video&#8217;s No. 1 Action Thriller Is This Liam Neeson Movie No One Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A movie that has been near-universally panned by critics is currently trending on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/media-network\/amazon-prime\/\">Amazon Prime Video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2022\u2019s\u00a0Blacklight, starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/liam-neeson\/\"><strong>Liam Neeson<\/strong><\/a>, has an abysmal rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the 82 percent audience score means some people were able to find something worthwhile about it.<\/p>\n<p>That \u201csome people\u201d is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/watch-with-us\/\">Watch With Us<\/a>, and we believe that all movies, even the bad ones, have some merit.<\/p>\n<p>The film stars Neeson as a shadowy government agent who uncovers a deadly conspiracy. We break down the reasons why Blacklight is worth checking out \u2014 even if it\u2019s only for a hate-watch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/3-underrated-prime-video-movies-you-need-to-watch-in-march-2026\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/the-blackcoats-daughter.jpg?crop=0px%2C85px%2C1631px%2C923px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Kiernan Shipka in The Blackcoat's Daughter\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/the-blackcoats-daughter.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/3-underrated-prime-video-movies-you-need-to-watch-in-march-2026\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">3 Underrated Amazon Prime Video Movies You Need to Watch in March 2026<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tAmazon Prime Video hosts some of the best mainstream movies, like\u00a0The Naked Gun, A Minecraft Movie and\u00a0Knives Out. But the streamer also has plenty of hidden gems buried in its library, and sometimes they need a little extra push to get in front of the right eyes. This March, Watch With Us thinks you should [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>It\u2019s So Bad You Might as Well See What All the Fuss Is About<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blacklight Trailer #1 (2022) | Movieclips Trailers\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PE04ESdgnHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Blacklight stars Neeson in the kind of role that his middle-aged celebrity persona has become known for: tough guys who are willing to risk everything to protect\/save the ones they love. This was first introduced in Taken,\u00a0and has gone on to evolve and shape shift across many more films such as Cold Pursuit, The Ice Road, Retribution and\u00a0Honest Thief.\u00a0In\u00a0Blacklight,\u00a0Neeson is an FBI fixer named Travis Block who becomes involved in a dangerous conspiracy amongst his own ranks. Unfortunately, this version of the Liam Neeson action hero isn\u2019t quite up to snuff, and the film itself should be better than it is.<\/p>\n<p>To get a good idea of how bad\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/blacklight_2022\">Blacklight is, look no further than the movie\u2019s Rotten Tomatoes score<\/a>, which is an impressively low 12 percent. The kicker? The critics\u2019 consensus just reads one simple phrase: \u201cTurn it off.\u201d When a movie is purported to be that bad, it kind of makes you want to find out just\u00a0how bad it really is, especially when the audience \u2014 as seen on the Rotten Tomatoes site \u2014 differs so starkly from the critical body (it should be noted, however, that it has a 4.9 score on IMDb). That might be what\u2019s behind the film currently sitting in the Prime Video top 10 \u2014 some good old-fashioned morbid curiosity. And at 105 minutes, you\u2019re not even wasting that much of your time by indulging in it.<\/p>\n<h2>Liam Neeson Manages to Make \u2018Blacklight\u2019 Watchable<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blacklight | Official Trailer | Only In Theatres February 11\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d4K9Rzy2_DA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you love Neeson in his other action schlock fare, you\u2019ll get your money\u2019s worth with\u00a0Blacklight, even though the character of Travis Block isn\u2019t quite as good as\u00a0Taken\u2019s Bryan Mills. Still, it\u2019s Neeson in his grizzled protector role, and if that\u2019s something that you\u2019re into, then you\u2019ll probably come away happy. Neeson does carry a certain gravitas and intensity in these roles that can\u2019t be matched by other actors, and even when the character is phoned in, and you can tell it would be easy for Neeson to phone it in as well, but he doesn\u2019t. That\u2019s a consummate showman.<\/p>\n<p>Neeson is ultimately why the movie isn\u2019t totally irredeemable, and it\u2019s kind of cool to see Neeson still get these tough-guy roles given his advanced age. Hey, maybe the movie proves that he isn\u2019t able to run very far without getting out of breath anymore, and for some reason, this is left in the film to make audiences think, \u201cIs Liam Neeson actually getting a little too old for these kinds of roles?\u201d But is that going to stop him from taking them? Well, if upcoming action thrillers like The Mongoose and\u00a0Hotel Tehran are any indication, that\u2019s an unambiguous \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<h2>\u2018Blacklight\u2019 Is an Action Film That Is Kind of Hilarious<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:41.857142857143%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4272608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Gabriella Sengos and Liam Neeson in Blacklight\" width=\"1000\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/blacklight-2.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Gabriella Sengos and Liam Neeson in Blacklight.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Briarcliff Entertainment \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blacklight isn\u2019t quite a \u201cso-bad-it\u2019s-good\u201d movie. In fact, it\u2019s very solidly a \u201cso-bad-it\u2019s-just-bad\u201d movie, but that doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t things about it that are deeply amusing. In particular, there\u2019s a scene that showcases a hilariously bad on-screen graphic for the film\u2019s in-universe fake Twitter stand-in with app functions like \u201creflooks\u201d and \u201cquote flooks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there are other little flourishes: plenty of hilariously bad line reads, a dog named \u201cLittle Man,\u201d and the movie being very obviously shot in Australia and not in Washington, D.C., where the story is set. Plus, the fact that it is such a half-hearted carbon copy of other, better Neeson action movies is laughable in and of itself. Blacklight is worth watching if you\u2019re a die-hard Neeson fan or if you like watching inept action movies that try desperately to punch above their own weight.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blacklight-Liam-Neeson\/dp\/B09KFBM4X8\">Stream\u00a0Blacklight on Amazon Prime Video.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie that has been near-universally panned by critics is currently trending on Amazon Prime Video. 2022\u2019s\u00a0Blacklight, starring Liam Neeson, has an abysmal rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the 82 percent audience score means some people were able to find something worthwhile about it. That \u201csome people\u201d is Watch With Us, and we believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2317751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[21741,319462],"class_list":["post-2317750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-entertainment","tag-what-to-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Prime-Videos-No-1-Action-Thriller-Is-This-Liam-Neeson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317752,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317750\/revisions\/2317752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}