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Liam Neeson doesn't steal much more than your time in 'Honest Thief' (CNN) By the standards of Liam Neeson thrillers (and there are a lot from which to choose), "Honest Thief" is pretty weak tea, a passable, low-octane action movie that doesn't do much more than steal one's time. Like second-tier John Wayne westerns, Neeson offers enough of what his fans want, but a thin script and stilted dialogue make the battle harder than usual. In "Taken," its sequels and similarly themed fare since -- a la  "The Commuter"  and  "Cold Pursuit"  -- Neeson has carved out a niche as a likable guy who's easy to root for and a very, very bad idea to cross. That's essentially the formula here, although the template actually proves closer to something like "FX" -- where the protagonist uses his specialized skills to fight the bad guys -- than the most obvious comparisons to Neeson's filmography. Neeson plays Tom Carter, a f...