For the sake of transparency, let me begin by putting my cards right on the table.
But you’d be wrong.
This time around, Neeson stars as Nels Coxman (seriously!)

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a quiet family man who works as a snowplow driver in a blizzardy Colorado ski town called Kehoe.
I know, it sounds preposterous, but just go with it.
And yes, he’s seeking vengeance yet again.
But Nels and his wife, Grace (Laura Dern), know their son and smell something fishy.
They all work for a fastidious, super-wealthy, hair-trigger psycho named Viking (Tom Bateman).
How do we know he’s a psycho?
If this all sounds like murder-by-numbers Liam Neeson Mad Libs, well, it kind of is.
But what setsCold Pursuitapart from its predecessors is its tone.
And why should he?
Payback is now Neeson’s business… and business is good.B+
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