Throughout his career, Liam Neeson has played a variety of boxers and badasses, but it wasn’t until 2008 – when he starred in Taken – that his reputation was solidified as this generation’s Charles Bronson. Following Taken, Neeson appeared in film after film as put-upon dads or aging veterans kicking ass and vengefully murdering the wicked. Indeed, Neeson appeared in so many of these films that my own personal circle of friends began counting them as unofficial sequels to Taken; The Next Three Days was Taken 2, Unknown was Taken 3, The Grey was Taken 4, Taken 2 was Taken 5, etc.
At first glance, Hans Petter Moland’s Cold Pursuit – a remake of his own 2014 Norwegian film In Order of Disappearance – appears to be yet another rollicking and shallow Neeson-kicks-ass-and-takes-names revenge thriller. The plot certainly apes familiar talking points: When Nels Coxman’s son is killed by a vengeful drug dealer, Coxman – a regular citizen who drives the snowplow in his tiny Colorado ski resort township – begins stalking and killing the men responsible. Luckily for Coxman, the drug dealers are sloppy enough that they can easily be located and murdered by a sexagenarian snow plow driver.
Source: IGN.com Cold Pursuit Review