Film review: Cold Pursuit ****

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Film review: Cold Pursuit ****

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! It’s your own fault, Liam Neeson, you swore you wouldn’t play any more action heroes yet here you are playing another one. Yes, but Cold Pursuit is different, ostensibly another in a long line of mad-as-hell vigilantes taking revenge for a loved one but actually a very black comedy – based on a Danish-Norwegian original called In Order of Disappearance (2014) – that merely uses its star’s avenging-badass persona, building a lattice of eccentric characters and whimsical details around it.

Those details include a...

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