FILMS OF THE WEEK

THE BIG MOVIE

COLD PURSUIT

(2019) 15 ◆

Sunday, 9pm, Ch5 ★★★

This looks like another Liam Neeson action movie, in the same vein as his Taken hits, and it is – save for the fact that it’s a remake of the Norwegian black comedy thriller In Order Of Disappearance, starring Stellan Skarsgard (watch on Amazon Prime). Here, Neeson plays Nels Coxman (above), the taciturn snow plough driver who keeps the roads clear in wintry Colorado. Nels doesn’t do emotion and, when his son dies of a forced heroin overdose, he copes by hunting and violently slaughtering the drug dealers responsible – all the way to the top of the violent

criminal food chain. You might think you’ve seen it all before, but

there are some surprises in store as Nels finds peace in poetic justice.