‘Cold Storage’ Review: Liam Neeson vs. a Gross Green Threat

Cold Storage is a self-aware B-movie throwback that leans into gross splatter and familiar genre beats. Liam Neeson appears as Robert Quinn, a weary bioterror operative whose arrival signals that something strange and spreading must be stopped. The film opens in a desolate Australian outpost, where Neeson and Lesley Manville’s Trini Romano zip into hazmat suits amid empty cars and scattered corpses.

A jet-lagged scientist, played by Sosie Bacon, proves carelessly fatal, and the threat moves on. Most of the action shifts years later to a vast underground self-storage facility. Georgina Campbell’s Naomi and Joe Keery’s Teacake, working a lonely night shift, break through a wall after following an inexplicable beeping and encounter a mystery fungus.

Guns fire, bodies explode and the director, Jonny Campbell, keeps the camera and story moving with frequent jump scares. David Koepp adapted the screenplay from his 2019 novel.

Australia

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