Cold Pursuit

Name: Cold Pursuit
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: February 8, 2019
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Aleks Paunovic, Ben Hollingsworth, Bradley Stryker, David O'Hara, Domenick Lombardozzi

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Lionsgate | Release Date: February 8, 2019 | R

Starring: Aleks Paunovic, Ben Hollingsworth, Bradley Stryker, David O'Hara, Domenick Lombardozzi, Elysia Rotaru, Emily Bruhn, Emmy Rossum, Jim Shield, John Doman, Julia Jones, Laura Dern, Liam Neeson, Michael Eklund, Micheál Richardson, Nicholas Holmes, Raoul Trujillo, Tom Bateman, Tom Jackson, Victor Zinck Jr., Wesley MacInnes, William Forsythe

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Cold Pursuit is a remake of In Order of Disappearance starring Stellan Skarsgård.

Summary: Nels Coxman (Liam Neeson) is a family man whose quiet life with his wife (Laura Dern) is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels' search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking (Tom Bateman), a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one each of Viking's associates "disappear," Nels goes fromNels Coxman (Liam Neeson) is a family man whose quiet life with his wife (Laura Dern) is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels' search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking (Tom Bateman), a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one each of Viking's associates "disappear," Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing - and no one - get in his way.… Expand

Director: Hans Petter Moland

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 119 min

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Johnny Oleksinski

Feb 12, 2019

Cold Pursuit is stark and refreshing, like taking an icy swim with the Polar Bear Club. A jolt. The movie makes you want him to stay around for a while longer. Read full review

Empire Ian Freer

Feb 20, 2019

A typically taciturn turn from Neeson is surrounded by a colourful cast, gallows humour and complete disrespect for cinematic stereotypes. A little bloated, maybe, but deserves kudos for joining the road not Taken. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Feb 11, 2019

Cold Pursuit has a strong current of dark humor winding through the proceedings. With a nod or two to Quentin Tarantino, he has fashioned a bizarrely entertaining ode to violence, gangsters, and heavy snowfall in the Rockies. Read full review

Mark Jenkins

Feb 5, 2019

An action thriller in which the Irish actor plays Nels Coxman, a snowplow operator at a Colorado ski resort with the death-dealing skills of a special-ops commando. This time, the absurdity is intentional. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Jan 28, 2019

While director Hans Petter Moland’s remake of his own film “In Order of Disappearance” (Frank Baldwin adapts the original screenplay by Kim Fupz Aakeson) may fall short of its goals, it’s hard not to admire the film’s ambitions — and certain scenes, performances and even one-liners — even as its flaws start piling up. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Feb 11, 2019

Cold Pursuit ultimately winds up being about how unsatisfying films like Cold Pursuit can be. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Feb 7, 2019

The stupidity lacks smarts in the script department, and the joke, such as it is, wears thin, then turns sour. Read full review

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SERG12341

May 6, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The movie I loved it ! When I watched the film in a whole can say that Liam Neeson well played in this movie . I can't even understand why the Viking who's playing Tom Bateman is showing off , why and why he's the boss . In the end I want to say that the movie is fantastic !… Expand

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DominArsen

Oct 27, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A film with a simple and proven scenario featuring Liam who loses his thread. The movie you will tell me surely still holds Liam and he still loses his family? Yes, that does not stop there since each death serves the staging and gives us some chills where some smiles for a particularly meticulous end on a happiness we feel when we do something that we love a repetition. For Liam it's the road, for me the path of cinema and maybe it's yours too. The film that highlights homosexuality a little more.

Un film au scénario simple et éprouvé mettant en scène Liam qui perd son fil. Le film vous me direz sûrement tient encore Liam et il perd encore sa famille ? Oui seulement cela ne s'arrête pas là puisque chaque décès sert la mise en scène et nous donne quelques frissons où quelque sourires pour une fin particulièrement dosée sur un bonheur qu'on éprouve quand on fait une chose que l'on aime a répétition. Pour Liam c'est la route, pour moi le chemin du cinéma et peut être bien que ce sera aussi le votre. Le film qui met en avant l'homosexualité un peux plus.… Expand

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Treva

Feb 10, 2019

Cold Pursuit is unlike most of what Liam Neeson has done before. It is a black comedy, more akin to Three Billboards and Fargo than, for example, the Taken franchise movies. One ruthless, uncaring mistake by a gang tears an average working man's family apart and starts an avalanche ofCold Pursuit is unlike most of what Liam Neeson has done before. It is a black comedy, more akin to Three Billboards and Fargo than, for example, the Taken franchise movies. One ruthless, uncaring mistake by a gang tears an average working man's family apart and starts an avalanche of killings in the snows around Denver, Colorado, in the height of winter. On the way, it has a bit to say about bad choices, karma, racism and even free trade. Very funny, very black, and very violent, it features some very interesting performances, too.… Expand

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Bubber

Sep 20, 2021

Entertaining Liam Neeson style revenge movie. Worth a watch if you like these types of movies.

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geewah

Jan 4, 2021

Like most remakes, this is the poorer cousin to the original. Predictable revenge tale that Neeson seems to of made his own of late.

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GreatMartin

Feb 8, 2019

I have been a fan of Liam Neeson since the 1980s and have been watching his turning into an action star at the age of 58 with "Taken" and I wish he would take a detour now and then back to 'the good old days' like "Schindler's List", "Rob Roy" or "Love Actually". With "Cold Pursuit" weI have been a fan of Liam Neeson since the 1980s and have been watching his turning into an action star at the age of 58 with "Taken" and I wish he would take a detour now and then back to 'the good old days' like "Schindler's List", "Rob Roy" or "Love Actually". With "Cold Pursuit" we already know the formula of his losing a family member, in this case, his son, and then the bloodbath starts.

It isn't long before Nels Coxman (Neeson) is killing one guy after another, then choking one before shooting, wrapping another and dumping him down a mountains falls and I stopped counting after the body total reached 15 and that wasn't even half of it. In a sense score is kept for you as each death in listed on the screen. Along with the high body count there is blood all over the place from bride's gowns to snow to a murderer asking a victim to move off a rug to not bloody it. Many attempts at humor fail but a few really get across and the scenes filmed in Alberta standing in for Denver, and a fictionalized ski town called Kehoe, never fail to be anything but beautiful. Nels is a snow pile driver and aside from many shots of him clearing snow for traffic there is also 2 shots of ways to use the snow pile machinery to kill people that aren't half as bad as other killings in the movie. The whole basis of the story is 'a son for a son' when one son is killed and another is threatened before a third son is killed. The father of one son is really a sick, controlling guy who can't quite get the better of his ex-wife even though he is the head kingpin of drug distribution.

Talking about a wife though it seems Laura Dern will play a major part of the movie but is in it too briefly. Actually women have a better showing for a movie like this with Dern, Julia Jones as the aforementioned ex and Emmy Rossum as a serious get them police officer. I love her in "Shameless", the series on Showtime, and was glad to see her. There are many roles, including all those killed, giving the actors time to impress without all that time on the screen.

"Cold Pursuit" is an okay genre movie that most people will like but if you don't see it you won't miss it.… Expand

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Broyax

Apr 7, 2022

Il s’agit d’un remake d’un très étonnant (et sarcastique) film norvégien de 2014… mais réalisé par le même metteur en scène ! et bizarrement, bien qu’il s’agisse à quelques détails près d’un copié-collé (d’ailleurs très paresseux), tout est devenu raté, maladroit, chiant comme la pluie,Il s’agit d’un remake d’un très étonnant (et sarcastique) film norvégien de 2014… mais réalisé par le même metteur en scène ! et bizarrement, bien qu’il s’agisse à quelques détails près d’un copié-collé (d’ailleurs très paresseux), tout est devenu raté, maladroit, chiant comme la pluie, convenu, poussif et forcément déjà vu…

Et plus drôle du tout soit dit en passant… ou disons que l’ironie macabre ne fait plus le même effet. Il faut dire que la distribution a totalement changé et que le sympathique (et grand gaillard) Liam Neeson n’est pas du tout à la hauteur de l’excellent acteur suédois Stellan Skarsgard !

De plus, Neeson est victime de son statut d’acteur brutal (les Taken et compagnie…) ce qui l’empêche d’incarner proprement ce brave type qui va en venir à des extrémités assez incroyables… après la mort plus que suspecte de son fils.

Donc, rien ne va ici et on s’emmerde ferme… nous recommandons par conséquent de faire une déviation obligatoire vers le film d’origine, « Refroidis » pour y retrouver à la fois cette ambiance typiquement nordique et authentique de la vision première du réalisateur -avant qu’il ne sombre dans le remake merdique pour la cupidité !… Expand

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