Cold Pursuit trailer: Liam Neeson is cold as ice in new action thriller

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Liam Neeson has spent the last decade or so becoming the most unlikely action icon in the business, and even after all these years, he’s finding new, inventive ways to kick ass and get his revenge. In the new trailer for COLD PURSUIT, Neeson plays Nels, a snow plowman whose son dies after getting involved with some thugs. You know what that means: Neeson gets his guns and fists loaded to take down the fools who are responsible. Get ready to see a lot of blood splattered on the ground because Liam Neeson is no longer Mr. Nice Plow.

What starts as a preview for what may have been your typical Neeson ass-kicking show becomes a showcase for a wild, tongue-in-cheek, darkly comic action thriller that finds our hero getting creative with his kills, going so far as to ram people off the road in his big plow, and then drop a giant tree on some poor thug. And you thought Tom Cruise was the most daring action star around.

Here’s the synopsis:

COLD PURSUIT, an action thriller infused with irreverent humor, stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife (Laura Dern) is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels' search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking (Tom Bateman), a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one each of Viking's associates "disappear," Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing – and no one – get in his way.

COLD PURSUIT, starring Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum and William Forsythe is set for February 8, 2019.