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Liam Neeson says he's done making action movies, despite the 'serious money' being thrown at him

Halfway through his sixties, Liam Neeson says he's ready to stop fighting mobs of faceless assailants in films like "Taken" and focus on more serious roles.

Starting with his role in 2008's "Taken," actor Liam Neeson became a standard leading man in a number of action films with a similar dynamic: one man, his character, against the world.

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But now that he's halfway through his sixties, Neeson says he's ready to stop fighting mobs of faceless assailants and focus on more serious roles, according to a Sky News report on the Toronto International Film Festival.

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