When will people learn not to fuck with Liam Neeson's kids? The man has a "certain set of skills," and those skills mostly involve defending his family with an arsenal of weapons and a well-earned fatherly rage. Unfortunately, Neeson has announced that he's retiring from action movies, so we probably won't get a sixth Taken sequel or whatever. But worry not! Neeson's still got one more action movie coming before he hangs up his fists and goes back to drama forever—and it is one hell of a movie for him to go out on.
In the upcoming film, Cold Pursuit, Neeson plays a snowplow-driving family man who goes on a vigilante killing spree after his kid mysteriously dies at the hands of some evil drug dealers. If this sounds suspiciously similar to every single other action movie that Neeson's starred in over the past decade, except with the addition of snow, you're not wrong.
But from the look of the first trailer, it is also the most Liam Neeson-y Liam Neeson action movie ever. It opens with Neeson driving his plow and then accepting an award for being such a good plower. He is suitably humble and appreciative in his speech.
"I'm just a guy who keeps a strip of civilization open," he says, as the trailer cuts to shots of his lovely home life with his son and wife, played by Laura Dern.
This is a good man, you think. He is a valuable part of his community. Everyone loves him. His world may be cold, but his heart is warm. Nothing could possibly upset his comfortable existence. Oh, but how mistaken you are.
Do all these complicated, vengeful murders truly help Neeson heal the wound of losing his son? Is causing pain to those who caused him pain really the only solution he has to feel whole again? Does his meager snowplow driver salary not afford him the cost of some decent therapy instead? Who cares! Exact that sweet revenge, Liam!
Cold Pursuit is out February 8, 2019. Until then, just watch him drop that giant tree on a car a few more times.
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