I would suggest before you watch this or think about watching it: go and watch the original! Way better, way funnier (darker) and feels generally better in tone. Now obviously some may think this is Taken or like Taken - it is not. Which makes some of the people watching this already mad. Especially because they don't know the movie this is based on.

I can only urge you so much to watch the other movie. Which doesn't mean this is bad. The movie this takes its cues from was too good for them to mess the remake up. The actors here try their best though and if you don't care for subtitles (which many will need since it is not in English, the Original that is),you could do far worse.

"Kraftidioten", a.k.a. "In order of Disappearance", is a brilliant 2014 black comedy/vigilante thriller from Norway. Since a lot of people in this world object to reading subtitles (and simply because it's an easy and profitable business),Hollywood is always eager to produce remakes of successful foreign movies. For once, however, I didn't immediately feel like boycotting the US remake; and this for two reasons. Number one: native Norwegian Hans Petter Moland directs the American remake himself and, number two, none other than the awesome Liam Neeson reprises the role of the grieving but vengeful father. Apart from different people in the cast, obviously, "Cold Pursuit" is practically a shot-by-shot remake of "In order of Disappearance. The setting has moved from snowy Norway to snowy Colorado, and the drug wars are fought with Native American tribes instead of with Albanian mafia families, but the plot of the quiet and introvert plow driver seeking retaliation for the murder of his innocent son is identical. This basically means that "Cold Pursuit" is still an awesomely entertaining action movie with sublime dry humor, but the freshness and the surprise elements are gone (unless if you haven't seen the Norwegian original, duh).

COLD PURSUIT is a straightforward English language remake of the Scandi crime comedy IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE, starring Stellan Skarsgaard. It follows that movie's plot very closely and has the same mix of extreme violence and dark comedy to see it through, which perhaps gives it an edge over the more mundane thrillers that Liam Neeson has been churning out lately. He's a good choice for the role of the taciturn grieving father, while the lengthy supporting cast put in a lot of effort to inhabit their larger-than-life character roles. Unusually for a remake, I found myself enjoying it a lot more than the original; it seems snappier, despite the two hour running time, the inevitability of it counts for a lot, and the Tarantino-style deadpan humour hits home time and again.