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Liam Neeson’s turn to self-mockery has rescued his career

Liam Neeson’s turn to self-mockery has rescued his career

With ‘The Naked Gun’, the Irish actor – now best known for his run of hardboiled, late-in-life action thrillers – has succeeded where Schwarzenegger and Stallone stumbled. But perhaps there was always something unintentionally humorous about all of his po-faced ‘Taken’-alikes, writes Xan Brooks

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