This Liam Neeson 2019 thriller on Peacock is a perfect pair with Naked Gun

A few years back, when I heard they were making a new Naked Gun movie, well… I thought it was a terrible idea. I love the originals, but without Leslie Nielsen or the ZAZ (David Zucker, Jeff Abrahams and Jerry Zucker) creative team, I just didn’t think the series’ unabashed silliness and nonstop battery of jokes could be recaptured nowadays. The only thing that gave me the slightest bit of hope about the film was the news that Liam Neeson was going to be the lead. And the reason I thought that might work was because I remembered a movie I’d seen just a couple of years prior: Hans Petter Moland’s action-thriller Cold Pursuit.