A reboot of The Naked Gun has been a long time coming. Luckily, Liam Neeson has understood the assignment. Arriving three decades after the last instalment, , the Irish actor takes the lead as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr, the cop son of Leslie Nielsen's iconic detective, in a hilariously punchy sequel.

Co-writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, the team behind 2022’s magnificently meta , serve up a laugh-a-minute script, bursting with the sort of sight gags, and wordplay that made the cop parody such a defining addition to the comedy genre. Yet there’s a more hard-boiled tone, with Neeson’s Drebin introduced early as a gruff detective who violently dispatches a group of bank robbers – stealing a literal ‘plot device’ – while dressed in a schoolgirl uniform that could give Britney Spears

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