Cold Pursuit

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Cold Pursuit

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2019

1h 58m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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Nels Coxman's quiet life as a snowplow driver comes crashing down when his beloved son dies under mysterious circumstances. His search for the truth soon becomes a quest for revenge against a psychotic drug lord named Viking and his sleazy henchmen. Transformed from upstanding citizen to cold-blooded vigilante, Coxman unwittingly sets off a chain of events that includes a kidnapping, a series of deadly misunderstandings and a turf war between Viking and a rival boss.

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Critics Consensus

Cold Pursuit delivers the action audiences expect from a Liam Neeson thriller -- along with humor and a sophisticated streak that make this an uncommonly effective remake.

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Feb 19, 2020

The director seems to take greater delight in laboriously killing off his characters than he does in delivering jokes.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

Sep 18, 2019

The dark humor that made [the original] really daring, strange, and cool just somehow gets lost here.

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Wenlei Ma

News.com.au

Mar 7, 2019

3.5/5

It nails its tone as an offbeat black comedy, managing to balance the macabre and the silly.

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Anthony Kirby

Film Ireland Magazine

Nov 3, 2025

Cold Pursuit has a quirky sense of humour, especially in the graphics that appear on screen after each evil character is dispatched.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Aug 19, 2022

2.5/5

Sometimes it’s a struggle to find the humanity in anyone. And that’s without getting into the ending and the head-scratching loose ends it leaves dangling.

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

Aug 19, 2022

3/5

Cold Pursuit’s streaks of brutal cold humor have more bite than your average dark-comedy.

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Murtaza A

Nov 26, 2021

Decent movie but cancel culture decided to tank the movie for his commentary on race.

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Winston D

@WinstonDavenport Oct 30, 2026

8.2/10. Cold Pursuit was a lot funnier than I expected. I went in for another Liam Neeson revenge thriller and got one, but the humor is dry enough that the most ridiculous moments play with a straight face. Neeson works as a snowplow driver who gets pulled into a mess way past anything he knows. Tom Bateman is a riot as Viking, a gangster so full of himself that he keeps making his own problems worse. The snowy Colorado setting helps a lot. My complaints are that Laura Dern gets very little to do and the movie spends too long on side characters. I kept wanting it to get back to Neeson.

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Robert P

@Superbad Oct 6, 2026

Cold Pursuit is a 2.5 star Movie!

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S. O

@Col._Angus Aug 11, 2026

This movie honestly reminded me of the Estevez/Sheen movie "Men at Work." Yes, it's that bad. Tom Bateman almost single-handedly turns this movie -- attempting to be serious -- into a joke. Absurdity reigns here; the number of flat-out stupid holes in the story are too numerous to list. Do yourself a favor and skip this movie. It's complete crap.

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Jonathan O

@RT41230270 May 22, 2026

I've not seen the original version but is under 2 hours of boring action revenge thriller and the dark humor doesn't hit the target and Liam is still doing he's best for doing action movies but this remake doesn't safe it.

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Richard S.

@richard_52 Feb 2, 2026

Good Neeson movie with plot that’s good. Weird ending

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Synopsis

Nels Coxman's quiet life as a snowplow driver comes crashing down when his beloved son dies under mysterious circumstances. His search for the truth soon becomes a quest for revenge against a psychotic drug lord named Viking and his sleazy henchmen. Transformed from upstanding citizen to cold-blooded vigilante, Coxman unwittingly sets off a chain of events that includes a kidnapping, a series of deadly misunderstandings and a turf war between Viking and a rival boss.

Director: Hans Petter Moland
Producer: Michael Shamberg, Ameet Shukla, Stein B. Kvae, Finn Gjerdrum
Screenwriter: Frank Baldwin
Distributor: Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate Films
Production Co: MAS Production, StudioCanal, Paradox Films, Summit Entertainment
Rating: R (Sexual References|Drug Material|Some Language|Strong Violence)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 8, 2019, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 3, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.1M
Runtime: 1h 58m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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