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Cold Blood: What is this crime comedy starring Liam Neeson on Netflix?



Liam Neeson’s frozen nugget

Inserted in the streaming giant’s catalog on 15 September 2023, Cold blood it’s part of what Liam Neeson has done best in recent years. Since he has expanded his scope to action cinema with Taken in 2008, the British actor was happy to act veteran assassins, protective family men, relentless vigilantesin a series of films that play on the tone established by Pierre Morel’s film and with a very casual quality.

Brilliant idea by Cold blood, in which Liam Neeson plays the lead role, the actor dons the costume of a grieving and vengeful father. But, this time, within the framework of a amazing action crime comedy.

Nelson Coxman (Liam Neeson) – In Cold Blood
Nelson Coxman (Liam Neeson) – In Cold Blood ©Netflix

A snowplow driver in Kehoe, a quiet ski town in Colorado, Nelson Coxman (Liam Neeson) finds his life turned upside down by the death of his son Kyle following a heroin overdose. When he discovers that his son has been murdered on the orders of a powerful cartel led by a certain Trevor “Viking” Calcote, Coxman sets out to dismantle it by assassinating Viking’s associates one by one, who will lead him to him.

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An American remake tailor-made for the actor

Cold blood is directed by Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland. The film is the remake of his own film Coldreleased in 2014. This too had received the Grand Prize and the Special Police Prize at the Beaune International Crime Film Festival the same year. In Coldthe main character is called Nils Dickman and is played by Stellan SkarsgĂĄrd, but the story is the same, he moved from Norway to the American Colorado to Cold blood.

Cold blood succeeds where many Liam Neeson action films fail, by dint of first degree. What does it mean Cold blood East as violent as it is fun, as cynical as it is moving. Among a gallery of characters who are more stupid than threatening, Nelson’s sadness and anger stand out, making the character as frightening as he is endearing.

Black comedy, story of brutal revenge but almost light in its narrative, Cold blood it strives to be both a bloody thriller and a smiling comedy, and has fun with irony and tenderness stateaction hero by Liam Neeson.

Source: Cine Serie

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