Starring
Liam Neeson
Tom Bateman
Tom Jackson
Emmy Rossum
Directed by Hans
Petter Moland
The end
justifies the means, they always say, and so it is with movies. The ending, the
conclusion, the final curtain is a summary or full stop to all the mayhem or
happenings we’ve enjoyed or endured while watching the movie. The ending of
this movie was bland. I felt it needed a stronger conclusion because that would
have made all the chaos we saw actually matter.
The movie is a five out of ten and cannot be more because the whole story was
set up in a way where you might not predict what happens next, but you couldn’t
care less.
The movie didn’t
try to impress in any way, and it played to the tune of the character Liam
Neeson is known for. One way or another, Neeson has been typecast as either a
parent with combat knowledge going after people who hurt his child (Taken,
2008) or a man up against an impossible foe. In this movie, he was both.
Based on the
2014 Norwegian film In Order of Disappearance and directed by the
same filmmaker, this movie’s plot is about a man whose son is killed while he’s
receiving an award for Citizen of the Year. His life starts to spin out of
control, and he attempts to end it when he discovers his son was a victim of a
drug cartel.
After finding
out the name of the person involved, he begins hunting down the men
responsible. The drug cartel, unaware of this enemy, thinks the culprit is an
Indian drug lord. After three of the cartel’s men are killed by the father
avenging his son’s death, the cartel goes after the drug lord and kills his
son. The drug lord then plans revenge against the cartel leader (Viking) and
his family. All the while, the father (Neeson) is also plotting how to take
down Viking and his family.
Cold Pursuit is
what you get when you take different fruits and put them in a blender—the
smoothie mix will have its own unique taste, an end you may not have guessed.
This movie applies this analogy in two ways.
The first is in
the plot. The story revolves around the lives and families of three different
people, and if you add the town they’re living in, you get a fourth party that
had little or nothing to do with the problem engulfing these three families.
The second
implementation of this analogy is the genres. This movie is a mix of black
comedy, thriller, drama, and sometimes action.
I, for one, sat
through this movie because I was curious to see Neeson in a new role, as I had
no idea what the movie was about. In the end, I was somewhat disappointed and
sad that I wasn’t entertained in any way by what was happening on screen.
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