"I'll fight like hell to save us all!"
So growls Liam Neeson as only he can in Cold Storage, a perfectly cast, pacy, and smart comedy-horror for the genre movie king.
Neeson recently told RTÉ Entertainment (watch above) that when he can no longer do his own fight scenes, he'll hang up the gloves on the action hero part of his career.
Going by his latest, the 73-year-old is good for a few oul scrapes yet.
Here, Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp adapts his own bio-thriller bestseller for cinemas with, wait for it, Am I Being Unreasonable? and Phoenix Nights director Jonny Campbell calling the shots.
That's quite the popcorn pairing behind the lens.
In front of it, they've struck chemistry gold with Stranger Things' Joe Keery and Barbarian's Georgina Campbell as in-the-wars-co-workers Travis and Naomi, and Neeson and Lesley Manville as Quinn and Romano, the retired government agents who come to their rescue.
Watch: Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery tell RTÉ Entertainment about making Cold Storage
Long story short, Travis and Naomi are the night shift crew at a storage facility that was once a military base - and there's a world-ending fungus down in the basement...
The container marked 'EXPOSITION' arrives at the start, but thereafter Cold Storage bounces along with the kind of gusto that was far more prevalent in the VHS glory days of the 80s.
It doesn't have any notions, and yet it still manages to work in an ecological message amidst the three gs: gore, gags, and guns.
It could have been a bit funnier, but that's the only quibble - and one that could be put right in a most-welcome sequel.
Fingers crossed...
In the meantime, lovers of Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator, this one is so you.
