Cold Pursuit Review: 7 Ups & 1 Down

5. The Fantastic Visuals

Cold Pursuit Liam Neeson
Summit Entertainment

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.

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