Cold Pursuit is a retribution thriller with exaggerated humor especially in the second part of the movie. We follow the story form three perspectives: from a perspective of Nels Coxman, father whose kid had been killed, criminals' who had killed the kid and Native American gang who become involved in Coxmans' and killers dispute.
Coxman in depicted as very vengeful, brutal and determined father. Criminal group is depicted as pretty stupid with their leader, Speedo, being overly malign and irreverent. Speedo plays very important role and his attitude is so overly spiteful that is sometimes just looks goofy in contrary to him trying to hold dangerous physical appearance. Native American group makes room for humor by engaging into battle with the former group. The chief purpose of having dark humor intertwined with violence is to make fun of gang life and show that there is nothing glamorous whatsoever in living such a life. For example, every time someone gets killed we see an obituary reminding us that we won't be seeing that character anymore. Story takes places during a heavy winter near Denver so you have a characteristic milieu for story to unfold and enough material for peculiar "war tactics".
All in all, Cold Pursuit is a decent and unusual vengeance movie with dark humor which comes as a nice surprise in contrast to violence. See it if you like Neeson type of movies.
Coxman in depicted as very vengeful, brutal and determined father. Criminal group is depicted as pretty stupid with their leader, Speedo, being overly malign and irreverent. Speedo plays very important role and his attitude is so overly spiteful that is sometimes just looks goofy in contrary to him trying to hold dangerous physical appearance. Native American group makes room for humor by engaging into battle with the former group. The chief purpose of having dark humor intertwined with violence is to make fun of gang life and show that there is nothing glamorous whatsoever in living such a life. For example, every time someone gets killed we see an obituary reminding us that we won't be seeing that character anymore. Story takes places during a heavy winter near Denver so you have a characteristic milieu for story to unfold and enough material for peculiar "war tactics".
All in all, Cold Pursuit is a decent and unusual vengeance movie with dark humor which comes as a nice surprise in contrast to violence. See it if you like Neeson type of movies.