The Marksman is a grey action film in which Liam Neeson plays an old, down-on-his-luck Arizona rancher who reluctantly becomes the protector of a young Mexican boy from evil cartel hitmen. The film’s tension comes from shootouts because you know where it’s heading, and the story reaches its conclusion without any major surprises. Neeson’s screen presence anchors the film. While the story doesn’t reach for greatness, the ending does earn a quiet kind of integrity. The Marksman is a film starring Liam Neeson as a former Marine who helps a boy escape a Mexican cartel. The film was released in January 2021 and received mixed reviews from critics. A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who've pursued him into the U.S... Leading a lonely, almost hand-to-mouth existence, Jim Hanson, a financially hard-pressed rancher on the Arizona-Mexico border and decorated former scout sniper for the U.S. Marine Corps, is on the ropes.