SEX APPEAL.(Movie Review)

Liam Neeson is six feet four inches tall, with a rugby player's broken nose, sleepy eyes, and a foghorn voice that can fall to a soothing caress. He has scale and range--he can be volcanically angry and touchingly gentle. Yet Neeson's movie career hasn't bloomed the way it should have; he's not quite a star. He has often been relegated to second-tier historical epics--he looks good in kilts (in "Rob Roy") or standing on a soapbox (in "Michael Collins") or carrying a load on his back across the French landscape (in "Les Miserables")--but he's hard to use in a contemporary setting. His earthy directness and largeness of spirit usually overwhelm a jacket and tie--he triumphs ...