The action thriller Cold Pursuit hit screens on Netflix earlier this month – and viewers say the movie is ‘a lot darker’ than they remembered.
Actor Liam Neeson, 71, stars in the 2019 film alongside Emmy Rossum, Julia Jones and Tom Bateman.
The two-hour flick is based around a snowplow driver who is desperate for revenge after the death of his son and takes out members of a drug cartel.
As Cold Pursuit makes a comeback via Netflix, viewers have taken to social media to share surprise at how intense the ‘brutal’ plot is.
‘Rewatching the Liam Neeson film. A lot darker and funnier than I remember,’ one person wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The 2019 film Cold Pursuit starring Liam Neeson has been available to stream on Netflix since November 1
‘No 1 movie is Cold Pursuit with Liam Neeson. We watched it last night. Not great, just OK. Pretty violent,’ wrote one person on Twitter.
Another person added: ‘Watching Cold Pursuit. It’s the brutal snowplow driver vengeance movie I didn’t know I needed. Basically an ultra dark side Mr Plow.’
Some who viewed the film compared it to his 2009 film Taken – a movie about a retired CIA operative crossing the globe to rescue his kidnapped teenage daughter.
One Twitter user wrote: ‘Also watched the movie Cold Pursuit with Liam Neeson. All movies seem to be spin offs of the original Taken.’
They added: ‘Same storyline with Cold Pursuit. Give it a 6/10. Watch when bored with nothing else on.’
A person on Twitter stated: ‘Watching Cold Pursuit starring Liam Neeson and, just like every movie he’s done since Taken, it’s basically just another remake of Taken.’
According to The Hollywood Reporter in 2019, it was Neeson’s worst film debut since starring in the 2009 action film Taken, and a sign that the actor’s reign as a ‘prolific genre here’ was declining.
Neeson’s character Nels Coxman seeks revenge of a group of people in a Denver drug cartel that murdered his son, Kyle.
People on social media have either loved or hated the movie, and people have also compared Cold Pursuit to other action films Neeson has starred in
Cold Pursuit see Neeson play Nels Coxman – a snowplow driver at a Colorado ski resort who is seeking revenge for a group of drug dealers who murdered his son, Kyle.
Coxman’s wife Grace leaves him, but not before he murders three members of a Denver drug cartel responsible for his son’s death.
The leader of the Denver drug cartel named Trevor ‘Viking’ Calcote suspects rival drug lord, White Bull Legrew, caused the deaths of his men.
Calcote has Legrew’s son murdered, and from there, a turf war between two rival drug cartels is created.
Actors Tom Bateman and Tom Jackson portray Trevor ‘Viking’ Calcote and White Bull Legrew, Jackson having received positive reviews from critics for his performance.
Academy Award winner Laura Dern portrays Grace, and Neeson’s son, Micheál Richardson, plays Kyle.
