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Irish Daily Star
|March 28, 2025
BLAME Liam Neeson. His 2008 career renaissance with the unflinchingly brutal action thriller Taken pushed the start button on a seemingly endless conveyor belt of bone-crunching imitators that loosely justify gratuitous bodily harm by threatening a hero's (chosen) family.
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Jason Statham has flexed his muscles in a few of these gung-ho suicide missions including last year's The Beekeeper directed by David Ayer, which pitted the Derbyshire-born actor against the unscrupulous staff of a phishing call centre, who scam the weak and vulnerable out of their life savings.
Director and lead actor reunite for more body blows in A Working Man, adapted from Chuck Dixon's novel Levon's Trade by screenwriters Ayer and Sylvester Stallone.
This story is from the March 28, 2025 edition of Irish Daily Star.
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