Doctor Omega
Member: Rank 10
Hard Powder
Director: Hans Petter Moland (“Aberdeen,” “The Last Lieutenant”)
Cast: Emmy Rossum, Laura Dern, Liam Neeson, Julia Jones
Details: Norwegian film director Hans Petter Moland remakes his own Golden Bear-nominated 2014 darkly comic action thriller “In Order of Disappearance” which followed a snow plow driver who learns his son died of an overdose and the local drug gang is behind the death. He hunts down the killers, goes after their bosses and in the process starts a major gang war.
This English-language version switches out Stellan Skarsgard for Liam Neeson, not the most inspired choice as it feels like the kind of role Neeson has been playing again and again since “Taken”. He does have some good supporting talent alongside him here though including Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum and Tom Batemen. Could be good, but seek out the original which is likely to be better.