Neeson’s latest thriller is dead funny
Crack the ice on director Hans Petter Moland’s English-language remake of his 2014 Norwegian film In Order of Disappearance, and it becomes clear that Cold Pursuit is a comedy, in which murder and mayhem are mined for laughs
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Cold Pursuit: Directed by Hans Petter Moland, Nationwide, 16,Rating:*****
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On its snow-blasted surface, Cold Pursuit might look like another of those late-career Liam Neeson action thrillers (from the Taken franchise, perhaps) in which our man plays an ordinary guy with a ordinary life until something unexpected happens and he transforms into an unstoppable killing machine, bent on revenge. And it is all of that, on ...
