Action thriller with Liam Neeson, who starts his campaign of revenge against the drug mafia

Action star Liam Neeson has eliminated opponents in a variety of ways since the cult hit 96 Hours. However, he was not seen in action with a snow plow (!) until five years ago. That’s exactly what happens in Cold Pursuit, which was shown in cinemas here in 2019 under the title Hard Powder.

The thriller, now back with the original title, is in the Netflix charts currently number 1 in the film top 10. Director Hans Petter Moland’s film is the US remake of his own Norwegian film, which is now ten years old.

Liam Neeson thriller on Netflix: This is the story of Cold Pursuit

In the new edition, Neeson plays the snowplow driver Nels, his son Machinations with the local drug mafia is murdered by the criminals. Nels then starts a merciless campaign of revenge that soon plunges the entire small town of Kehoe into bloody chaos.

Check out a German trailer for Hard Powder aka Cold Pursuit here:

Netflix hit is the remake of a 10-year-old revenge thriller

If the plot of Cold Pursuit sounds familiar, you’ve probably seen the Norwegian revenge thriller One by One. Hans Petter Moland’s original from 2014 with Stellan Skarsgård in the leading role is the basis for the new version, which the director directed again himself.

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