Liam Neeson’s impeccable set of skills has served him well over the last two decades, and long after appearing in Taken, he put them to use in the action thriller Honest Thief. The film was released in 2020, but at the beginning of January it was put in front of a new audience on free streaming platform, Freevee. After topping the chart immediately, then dropping out of the Top 10, the movie has now shot back up to #3 on the chart almost a month later.

Liam Neeson’s skills include his ability to deliver movies that please large audiences looking for violence, high drama, and twisting, turning – if often predictable – storylines about kidnap, revenge, or retribution. Coincidentally, it is also the kind of movie that keeps topping free streaming charts time and time again. In the case of Honest Thief, it seems the same film can also find success more than...