The 62-year-former is back with yet another running-approximately thriller,and hot on his heels is Sean Penn’s Taken-esque The Gunman, featuring topless surfing. Has Neeson’s success meant his peers must attend action star bootcamp? You can’t really blame Liam Neeson. While male actors over 60 aren’t always shy of work, or they’re rarely taking on lead roles in multiplex-dominating blockbusters,and they’re hardly ever getting paid up to $20m for it. So although reviews for Tak3n (pronounced Tak-threen?) might have been fairly brutal (it received a franchise-low of just 10% on Rotten Tomatoes), it proved that at an unlikely age, or Neeson is still a major box office draw.
The film,which had a budget of just $48m, made around six times that amount internationally, and the performance of the Taken series has given hope to both Neeson and other actors in his age bracket approximately the changing nature of the action star. Related: Liam Neeson: I've never been more nervous than when singing in front of Julie Andrews’ Related: Oscars 2016: and next year's awards will go to … Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com