2019 · crime · action · drama
Cold Pursuit
Directed by Hans Petter Moland1h 59m2019
The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.
Our read: Cold Pursuit (2019) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
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- extreme
- twisty
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