Liam Neeson’s <em>Cold Pursuit</em> Is Like <em>Taken</em>, but With Insight
The star’s new revenge thriller presents its pulpy violence with a degree of introspection that’s unusual for the genre.
Nels Coxman (played by Liam Neeson), the lead character of , has never killed anyone in his life. A snowplow driver in the fictional Colorado ski town of Kehoe, he’s beloved enough that his fellow citizens name him “Man of the Year,” letting him give a corny speech as his beaming wife, Grace (Laura Dern), looks on. Nels seems harmless—but this is a Liam Neeson movie, one firmly planted in the tradition that began with (2008), in which a quiet, respectablewas on a plane, and was on a train, then surely is on a snowplow, right?
