The Naked Gun movie review: Liam Neeson shoots for laughs, hits just enough

The danger this time comes from the kind of billionaire who makes his money in tech, has now embraced green energy, and believes the world needs to be rid of people who are less than equal to “men of action” like him. This billionaire, Richard Cane, is played in his usual oily indolent way by Huston.

Drebin Jr catches on to Cane fairly quickly, but of course must jump the hoops of a Naked Gun to finally get there. While Neeson throws himself sportingly into what is a spoof of the many roles he has done of well-minded men of violence, Anderson is a scene-stealer whenever she appears. Of course, we are meant to be stunned, but her Beth is all woman and not just a Baywatch bod.

Fans of The Naked Gun will go back happy, and those missing the kind of crude, unsanitized humour that it revels in, would be gratified to see Neeson lending his weight to it.

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Plus who doesn’t want to take a swing at a world where “powerful, righteous” – and rich – men seem to have it all?

The Naked Gun movie director: Akiva Schaffer
The Naked Gun movie cast: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Danny Huston, Paul Walter Hauser, C C H Pounder
The Naked Gun movie rating: 2.5 stars