Next of Kin: The First Movie Featuring a Liam Neeson Revenge Plot

Next of Kin deserves an honorable mention for the Liam Neeson action movie genre. While it was released way back in 1989, it features Liam Neeson as a character bent on revenge for the murder of a family member. Next of Kin stars Patrick Swayze as Truman Gates, a police officer in Chicago who was from the countryside. His brother played by Bill Paxton gets killed by a crime family and the Gates family wants revenge.

Liam Neeson plays Briar Gates, the older brother of Swayze. He resents Patrick for going to live in the city and is impatient with how slow to police are finding the killer. He goes to Chicago and hunts down the crime family that killed Bill Paxton. The movie devotes a good amount of time to Liam Neeson's revenge. He simply gets a gun and does surveillance on the family and finds their hideout. He even escapes from them when they outnumber him. Overall Liam doesn't make it at the end but justice is served. This is the first time Liam Neeson would play a character seeking vengeance and using skills but not the last. As for the movie as a whole, it well done but nothing you will remember in a few years. 🍔🍔