Cold Pursuit

Telecaster58 · 26-10-2018 2:31pm #1

I see Liam Neeson is back doing another revenge movie. I must admit I laughed my socks off at the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WCdhmc1otg

Frank O. Pinion · 26-10-2018 2:45pm

Similarities to The Simpsons

Shortly after the announcement of the film's release, numerous Twitter users compared the film's premise to The Simpsons episode "Mr. Plow", in which Homer Simpson becomes Springfield's snowplower.

gmisk · 30-10-2018 2:19pm

This looks like a lot of fun

BigBlackDog · 31-10-2018 9:37am

The original 'In order of disappearance' Was great fun. Hopefully keeping the original director will lift this above the standard Hollywood remake.

Hande hoche! · 31-10-2018 11:38am

Certainly will be making the effort to see this.

BigBlackDog wrote: »

The original 'In order of disappearance' Was great fun. Hopefully keeping the original director will lift this above the standard Hollywood remake.

Yeah it had a wonderfully dark comedic side to it. Well worth the watch.

restive · 25-02-2019 8:55pm

A black comedy more than anything else. Really enjoyable, worth seeing. I hope the negative publicity around Liam Neeson doesn't affect the box office.

Hande hoche! · 25-02-2019 11:25pm

A blast of a film, plenty of laughs from it. Good fit for Neeson too.
Plenty lifted from the original but enough new stuff to keep the viewer interested.

Unearthly · 26-02-2019 9:46am

Really enjoyed it. A lot more depth to it than your average Neeson film and some good laughs

Fysh · 26-02-2019 10:44am

I was surprised to read that the same director is attached, the tone of the trailer I saw didn't seem to have the same handle on the dark comedy and Neeson just doesn't seem a good fit for the protagonist character from the original.

It's heartening to see that folks who have seen the original enjoyed this, I may check it out so

Banjaxed82 · 26-02-2019 12:58pm

I haven't seen the original, and while it is an enjoyable film, the uneven tone of the film smacks you right in the face. While some moments were funny, that doesn't mean they sit well in the over all film.

Some random plot lines, and some characters feeling like they were in another film (from another decade) aside, it's definitely worth a watch. Just felt I was constantly taken out of the film by random nature of it.

JP Liz V1 · 26-02-2019 10:43pm

Is it out here?

restive · 26-02-2019 11:51pm

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is it out here?

Yes

Jude13 · 27-02-2019 5:16am

Went to see it last night, I hadn't watched any trailers however I had seen an Irish Times headline saying it may b worth a look. I had expected a Taken type movie however it is something completely different. I really really enjoyed it. Very funny and well worth a look.

Mitch Connor · 27-02-2019 11:36am

Thought it was absolutely rubbish.

Didn't find it engaging or funny at all.

Thought Tom Bateman put in a great audition for a Batman Joker though.

mathie · 27-02-2019 4:30pm

restive wrote: »

A black comedy more than anything else. Really enjoyable, worth seeing. I hope the negative publicity around Liam Neeson doesn't affect the box office.

Well played.

p to the e · 27-02-2019 5:51pm

Does he make any lists in it?

CiDeRmAn · 27-02-2019 7:20pm

I thought it was a whole lot of fun, and the controversy surrounding Neeson at the moment is going to hurt it and that's a real pity

[Deleted User] · 27-02-2019 10:56pm

for anybody who has watched the original Nordic movie - is it worth watching?

Mr E · 28-02-2019 1:27am

Saw this tonight, really liked it. There were missing details though (like how he tracked some of the people down etc.) but I'm not going to get too hung up on it.

Loved the

"In order of disappearance"

in the credits - very clever!

The screening was maybe 15% full though (and it's €5 for tickets today so it should have been busier). Doesn't bode well for box office receipts.

Unearthly · 28-02-2019 9:21pm

glasso wrote: »

for anybody who has watched the original Nordic movie - is it worth watching?

Out of curiosity sake I watched 30 minutes of the original after watching the Neeson film. I turned it off as it's mostly a scene by scene copy bar a few tiny changes

ancapailldorcha · 06-03-2019 1:08am

This had something of a limp feel to it. The trailer sold it as something the Coens would direct but it feel short of that standard IMO. A shame.

DeepBlue · 06-03-2019 11:01pm

glasso wrote: »

for anybody who has watched the original Nordic movie - is it worth watching?

I think I read somewhere where someone said they'd done something different with the remake but if they did I didn't see it. I quite enjoyed the original. The remake is a paler version. The plot beats are the same but Skarsgard did a better, more droll job in the lead role than Neeson does so overall I found it a bit disappointing.

branie2 · 22-03-2019 12:07pm

I'm going to see it this evening

branie2 · 23-03-2019 10:41am

It was very good

Niska · 26-03-2019 11:01am

Saw it last night - enjoyable, black comedy. Neesons character is overall reserved which makes the sudden violence spikes almost comically absurd.

Didn't realise until it started that it was a remake of In Order of Disapperance, which I saw a while back on Netflix. Can't remember the original's details enough to say it was a shot for shot remake, but every major beat was the same.

Overall it's like Let Me In / Let the Right One in - if you don't mind subtitles, the original is just as good, if not better. There is nothing different in plot, script, performances (Neeson is good, but so was Skaarskard (sp?)) directing etc to warrant seeing it if you've seen the original.

(In Order of Disapperance is on Amazon Prime if you have that.)

kerplun k · 30-06-2019 10:59pm

Just happened to watch this tonight. It’s fricken brilliant. I was expecting the usual Liam Neeson revenge schtick, but thanks to an amazing director who genuinely seems to care about what he puts on screen, he takes the normally formulaic, one man against the world plot and turns it into a genuinely fantastic flick. I’m looking forward to seeing what Hans Petter Moland does next. I’m guessing this flew under the radar a little thanks to the unfortunate press it got from the marketing campaign.

[Deleted User] · 01-07-2019 4:58pm

Unearthly wrote: »

Out of curiosity sake I watched 30 minutes of the original after watching the Neeson film. I turned it off as it's mostly a scene by scene copy bar a few tiny changes

you watched it the wrong way around!

the original is pretty good and I turned off the remake likewise because it seemed a poor imitation and yes they changed nothing really in terms of plot.

vriesmays · 01-07-2019 5:37pm

Is Cold pursuit better than Hot pursuit.

kerplun k · 01-07-2019 9:43pm

glasso wrote: »

you watched it the wrong way around!

the original is pretty good and I turned off the remake likewise because it seemed a poor imitation and yes they changed nothing really in terms of plot.

Either way, if you view Cold Pursuit as a stand-alone and haven’t seen the original, it’s a great watch.

gmisk · 10-05-2020 9:10pm

This is on Amazon prime.

Odd film I must say, more like a dark comedy.. tonally I will say it is a bit all over the place.
Enjoyable

Cold Pursuit

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