On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 11% of 104 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.8/10. It dropped out of the box office top ten in its third weekend with $878,687. The film finished tenth at the box office in its second weekend with $1.7 million. The ethnic breakdown of the audience showed that 53% were Caucasian, 14% Hispanic and Latino Americans, 15% African American, and 18% Asian or other. Overall audiences during its opening were 64% male, 83% above the age of 25, 58% above 35, and 35% above 45. The film went on to debut to $3.5 million, finishing fifth at the box office. In the United States and Canada, Blacklight was released alongside Death on the Nile and Marry Me, and was projected to gross $1–5 million from 2,772 theaters in its opening weekend. The film was released video-on-demand on March 3, while the film released on Blu-ray and DVD in May 3 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. A film soundtrack has been released.īlacklight was released in the United States by Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment on February 11, 2022. In January 2021 it was announced that a car chase scene would be filmed in Canberra. Principal photography of the film started in November 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Robinson is arrested for his crimes, Jones completes her story about the government cover-up, and Block retires and reunites with his family who had been placed in Witness Protection but are now brought back home. Block confronts Robinson with the truth about Operation Unity, and forces him to turn himself in to the authorities. Robinson had her killed after Crane got too attached to her.
Block defeats the agents and retrieves the hard drive.īlock and Jones review the hard drive and discover that Crane was in love with his assignment, Flores. Robinson escapes with the help of several FBI Agents, who engage in a gunfight with Block.
He confronts Robinson at his house and forces him to open the safe, which contains a hard drive with information about Operation Unity. He tells her that Robinson has a safe in his house with government secrets. Jones convinces a distressed Block to help her uncover the mystery of Operation Unity. That evening, he is followed home and killed after a car accident by the same two FBI Agents that killed Crane and Flores. Jones's editor, Drew, writes a story about Crane's mysterious death using her sources. Block confronts Robinson about Operation Unity, but Robinson brushes off his questions and warns Block not to interfere.
Crane tells Block that Robinson ordered Flores' killing before he is shot dead by two FBI Agents.īlock and Jones meet again and she tells him that Crane claimed to have information about Operation Unity, a top secret FBI program run by Robinson that kills innocent civilians, including Flores. Block follows Jones to the meeting but Crane escapes again. Escaping several times from Block and the FBI, Crane arranges to meet Jones at a museum. However, Crane goes rogue and contacts a journalist, Mira Jones, claiming to have information about Flores' death. Instead he is given a new assignment to bring in undercover FBI Agent Dusty Crane. After completing one mission, he tells Robinson he wants to retire and spend more time with his daughter and granddaughter, but Robinson is reluctant to let him go.
Travis Block, a Vietnam War veteran, works off-the-books for FBI Director Gabriel Robinson as a fixer. That evening, she is killed in a deliberately planned hit-and-run outside of her home. Political activist Sofia Flores speaks at a rally in Washington, D.C. The film was a box office bomb, grossing $16 million against its $43 million budget, and was panned by critics, with many naming it among the worst films of Neeson's career. īlacklight was released in the United States on Februby Briarcliff Entertainment. The film stars Liam Neeson as a brooding FBI fixer who gets involved in a government conspiracy Emmy Raver-Lampman, Taylor John Smith, and Aidan Quinn also star. Blacklight is a 2022 action thriller film directed and co-written by Mark Williams.
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