Let me start by saying that I’m not a Liam Neeson fan. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve enjoyed some of the movies he’s made (DARKMAN is a favorite), and I don’t let his presence in a film keep me from watching it. But there’s just something about the guy that rubs me the wrong way. However, I was in the mood for an action movie, and we’d never seen 2019’s COLD PURSUIT, so I figured, why not?
That turns out to have been a good choice. Neeson plays the protagonist of this
movie, a snow plow driver in a small ski town in Colorado, but there are long
stretches where other characters take over. Neeson’s son runs afoul of some
drug smugglers and winds up dead of an apparent overdose, but he’s not
convinced that’s what really happened and sets out to find the truth. When he
does, he goes on a vengeance quest that gets rather convoluted with plot twists
and competing gangs. And Neeson’s character has a secret in his background that
makes things even more interesting.
What starts out as a pretty grim movie winds up having a lot of dry, oddball
humor in it. In fact, COLD PURSUIT (which is based on a Norwegian movie) is a
pretty oddball film overall. But it’s well-made, well-acted, reasonably
suspenseful, and I wound up enjoying it more than I expected to. If you’re in
the mood for a offbeat action movie, I recommend it.
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