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Apart from his mentor role in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, Liam Neeson has been too old to properly fit into the contemporary superhero boom, both practically and spiritually; he harkens back to an earlier form of hard-to-stop cinematic tough guy. As it happens, Sam Raimi’s comic-book pictures harken back to an earlier form of superhero, pulpier and weirder and more influenced by horror comics, and the anguish of a young Neeson turned out to be perfect for Raimi’s sui…
