"Nobody in their right mind would reboot The Naked Gun," Johnny Oleksinski writes at the New York Post. "So thank God these filmmakers clearly are not in their right minds." Oleksinski is one of many reviewers praising the comedy reboot, which has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Liam Neeson stars as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., son of Lt. Frank Drebin, Leslie Nielsen's character in the original Naked Gun movies. Pamela Anderson co-stars as his love interest in a plot that spoofs '80s LA action movies.
- "Like Nielsen, he delivers his dialogue with a gravelly matter-of-factness that only compounds its lunacy," Robbie Collin writes at the Telegraph. "If the Taken star's past decade of throwaway action roles achieved nothing else, they at least equipped him with exactly the sort of no-nonsense screen persona required to sell some of the most unapologetically all-nonsense material to be seen since the early 1990s." Collin says that with a joke in almost every line of the script, you'd be "laughing more or less continuously through to the credits" even if the hit rate was only one in five—and for him, it was considerably higher.