{"id":28999,"date":"2023-11-27T17:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28999"},"modified":"2023-11-27T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:05:05","slug":"a-review-of-the-film-cold-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28999","title":{"rendered":"A review of the film &#8220;Cold Pursuit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nA 2019 film starring Liam Neeson as a character seeking revenge for the death of his son &#8211; sounds like something along the well-trodden path of the &#8220;Taken&#8221; franchise (2008-2014), right? Well, no. This is actually a remake of a Norwegian film &#8220;In Order Of Disappearance&#8221; (2014) with the same director, Hans Petter Moland. \n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a thriller as a kind of black comedy, but I didn&#8217;t find it either thrilling or comedic. Leeson is wasted in the role of a snowplough driver called Nels Coxman (in the original the character was named Nils Dickman) and Laura Dern is massively underutilised as his wife.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2019 film starring Liam Neeson as a character seeking revenge for the death of his son &#8211; sounds like something along the well-trodden path of the &#8220;Taken&#8221; franchise (2008-2014), right? Well, no. This is actually a remake of a Norwegian film &#8220;In Order Of Disappearance&#8221; (2014) with the same director, Hans Petter Moland. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29000,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999\/revisions\/29000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}