Robert_duder Review of Cold Pursuit

Cold Pursuit (2019)

An interesting attempt to translate a Norwegian film

[7/10 · 31 May 2019]

Usually when a foreign film gets remade, it gets very much "Westernized" to the point where it retains nothing from it's original source or style but I have a feeling (I haven't see the original) that Cold Pursuit tried to retain some of that feel from the original Norwegian version. It is a vengeance film but it's far different than Taken or any other of Liam Neeson's recent action films because it has a very specific style and it's got that vibe to it of an independent film more than anything. That doesn't make it bad, or good, it just makes it different than what a lot of people probably expect. It was a little slower than I thought it would be, a little darker and a little more dark humor than I expected too. If you watch it from a certain perspective it has some genuinely funny (albeit very morbidly) funny moments. Liam Neeson's character is anything but a "bad-ass" . In fact he's just a guy pushed to the brink by the loss of his son and someone who knows the area around him better than anyone else and then he has the luck of mistaken identity throughout most of the film. It's gritty and violent and hard to watch and then it's a little bit odd and over the top at the same time. I'm not sure how Cold Pursuit did financially but I could understand if it didn't do as well as his other pictures because this one is a very distinctive style. But if you want something different and really like Neeson than you can be sure this will wet your whistle. 7/10