Cold Pursuit Review: 7 Ups & 1 Down
5. The Fantastic Visuals
In addition to retaining the original film's director, Cold Pursuit also employs the eye-watering brilliance of returning cinematographer Philip Øgaard, who lends the film much of its stark, chilly visual identity.
Switching out the original's fictional Norwegian town of Tyos for the also-fictional mountain town of Keyhoe, Colorado, almost the entirety of the film unfolds with the pure white mountains surrounding the characters, and Øgaard does a fantastic job making the environment a character unto itself.
That's not to forget some crisp editing from Nicolaj Monberg, who creates a number of memorable match cuts to punctuate both the drama and the violence, nor the consistently hilarious title cards which appear every single time a character dies (another flourish retained from the original film).
These elements all combine to further differentiate the film from Neeson's other, more visually typical offerings, giving the film a very distinct look throughout.