Cold Pursuit by Frank Baldwin - 6.5 out of 10

Cold Pursuit by Frank Baldwin 
6.5 out of 10


Cold Pursuit is one of those works that dazzle some viewers, while others are looking for the exit from the cinema or the remote control, if it is on television.

Entertainment Weekly gave it 83 out of 100, Variety with 80 was evidently pleased, if not more, while the Chicago Tribune agrees more with this cinephile, thinking it only with 38 points out of the same 100.
Audiences may be biased now that Liam Neeson, the star of the film, has made some awful confessions about his real life, where he had wanted at one time to play the Vigilante that he so often portrays in the screen these days.
His statements, albeit expressing regrets, might end his career sooner rather than later.

On the other hand, Mel Gibson went missing for a while and now he is back...in The Professor and the Madman he is rather good...

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Liam Neeson is Nels Coxman on the screen - he seems to have had an inclination to play him off the set too, in his past.
He is driving a snowplow and acts as a model citizen, being awarded a medal for this.

When his son is killed, the official version is that the young man had used drugs.
He was no junkie, states his father.

As we anticipate, he starts his own inquiry, causing pain when he does not get the information he needs.
This has reminded me of Payback, with the aforementioned Mel Gibson, a much better movie than Cold Pursuit and also a remake.

The vengeful father moves up the ladder, to find the mastermind, the drug lord who needs to be eliminated to pay for the tragic loss.
When three of the dealers are killed, they are wrapped in chicken wire and dispatched on a mountain, in a spring, to be eaten by fish, before the bodies would inflate and resurface from the water, as Nels explains.

Trevor 'Viking' Calcote is the ring leader.
Furious that three of his men are missing, he thinks that the Native Americans he does business with are responsible for the killings.

First he murders the son of the Native American chief, then he pretends he has found the rogue individual of his clan responsible for the son's death and sends his head as a gift.
Nevertheless, it is war.

In the middle of this, we have the Angel of Death who would dispatch almost all the villains.
We are sure of that, no spoilers are needed here.

Tom Bateman is exaggerating in the role of Viking.
But so are the others, if you ask me.

But if you look at what Variety and Entertainment Weekly, among others, say, this is a formidable motion picture.
In my opinion, it is a waste of time.