Cold Pursuit Reviews
May 19, 2019
What's next, Neeson killing criminals while perched on a Segway? Thankfully, there's more to Cold Pursuit than just the gruff action star grimly running over villains with a snowplow.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
May 1, 2019
If you enter with an open mind and welcome a left-of-centre, comedically black approach to the revenge genre, Cold Pursuit could very well end up a satisfying excursion for those willing to take it.
April 8, 2019
Some of it works, while other parts feel desperate and strained.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
April 4, 2019
So goes the storyline, and with each bend in the road, there is violence, including beatings, drug overdoses, and death by whatever piece of wood or steel is handy. One can lose count.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
March 30, 2019
like Fargo meets Pulp Fiction, nowhere near as good as either but at least it has ambition
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
March 22, 2019
Take it all with a pinch of salt -- it's a darkly comedic parody on crime's worst case scenarios.
March 22, 2019
There's not much room for examining motives or moral ramifications in a story that funnels toward an inevitable conclusion, but loses momentum before it gets there.
March 14, 2019
The quirky tale plays out like Taken meets Fargo with shades of Quentin Tarantino, as dry wit and dark humour colour the proceedings.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
March 8, 2019
Audiences would be better served to watch the Skarsgård version. Or, for prime twenty-first century black comedy, Martin McDonagh's "In Bruges."
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
March 6, 2019
It nails its tone as an offbeat black comedy, managing to balance the macabre and the silly.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5
March 5, 2019
It is a film full of quirks, but of little depth.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
February 28, 2019
After a zingy, tight first hour, the concision gives way to flab. The executions become a touch mechanical, the gags start to feel forced, and the avalanche of lavishly nicknamed baddies loses distinction.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
February 26, 2019
A wacky, strange opus of vengeful violence that'll please fans wanting to watch Liam Neeson do some good old fashioned killin'.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
February 26, 2019
An insanely watchable slice of icy mayhem, self-amused but also self-assured right down to the last rib-tickling frame.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
February 25, 2019
Talk about perfect casting. Neeson always looks great against snow.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
February 25, 2019
It's a violence revenge film that would joke about how its tongue got so firmly in its cheek.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
February 25, 2019
The film is very well narrated. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
February 25, 2019
Cold Pursuit is just, well, cold. It is meant to be funny, you can see what the gags are supposed to be a mile off, but the comedy takes forever to warm up.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
February 25, 2019
Caught noncommittally between action and comedy, it goes from being a cheeky genre meditation to a bore, spinning its snow-capped wheels.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
February 24, 2019
It's lip curling in places...but there's not enough brutality or absurdity to make Cold Pursuit anything other than evocative of better movies.