Rob Roy
Liam Neeson is a first rate actor who has never lacked for work (or fortunately the desire to work a lot). Since his first onscreen role as Jesus Christ in Pilgrim's Progress in 1978 he has often appeared in multiple films per year. While his star power rose substantially after the unexpected success of Taken in 2009, he had his first big ascension in the wake of Schlinder's List, a film for which I thought he should have won Best Actor. A little over a year after the release of that film, Neeson headlined the Scottish themed film, Rob Roy, which I mentioned in my post for The Grey . Rob Roy is directed by Scottish director Michael-Caton Jones, who directed a few other dramatic films I liked such as Doc Hollywood (1991) and City By the Sea (2002) and a couple with terrible scripts such as Basic Instinct 2 (2006) and The Jackal (1997). Neeson excels at both drama and action and Rob Roy allows him combine both of these skills. Rob Roy is an excellent swordsman and a fierc