The Cold Light of Day

2012 "Instinct is his greatest weapon."
4.9| 1h33m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 06 September 2012 Released
Producted By: Summit Entertainment
Country: United States of America
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After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.

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Mabrouk El Mechri

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Summit Entertainment

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Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
pabobfin The movie is awful. Four word review. Now to expand. It follows a CIA shoot-em up Thriller-wannabe format. There is the McGuffin, which if you find out what it is they have to kill you, and the hostage of the family, the surprise sister with a different mother, and endless chase scenes make me wonder how the Spanish authorities were bribed to let this happen in their beautiful country. Endless product placements starting with Coke, BMW, Range Rover, and the clothing line, forgotten already. Lots of nice cars died for naught.Bruce Willis is killed off with no reprieve. The cliché would be to have had him live...but no they went straight to the death. He certainly didn't Die Hard, Harder, or Die Again in this one. He just DIED.There is a poor explanation of just WTF happened, and after finished watching I still couldn't figure out who the players were. Mossad, CIA, Bad CIA, Rogue Agent, Hero Agent, and lots of Uzi's and Semi- automatic guns with endless bullet magazines. Lots of shooting, did I mention LOTS of SHOOTING? Also lots of gratuitous deaths, Sigourney is looking OK for 65, but she's no Dame Judy Dench in this acting fiasco. She's jumped the shark on thrillers I fear. She seemed like the ALIEN in this film.The Spanish police are made to look like total idiots, and cars driving recklessly through Madrid never once attracted the attention of the POLICIA, not once. Zero is not allowed, so it earned a 1/10I'm sorry I wasted the time.
G Connolly Fails on every level and whoever wrote the script kind of guessed or knew that well.The only way this film keeps you watching is some general kind of suspense about what anything means in it - what anything is for. Does it have any purpose? As it turns out - it all means nothing, or the unsaid, and it isn't possible to care in any event.A serious, serious, serious avoider. It doesn't even pretend to make any much sense by the end.This must be one of the worst films I have ever seen. The budget must have been huge also - Willis, Weaver, but it isn't even in the world of failed A-list films. I doubt it even makes it into failed D-list films, so the Hollywood A- list cast inclusions and budget for the Spanish locations just leaves you utterly bewildered.Why on earth? Who would do this?If this is on TV it will waste hours of your life if you watch. Whatever you do, don't exchange any money for this film, streaming or disc.
Hizy27 Story was not so original, it really reminded me a Taken movies and actually every other action movie. It was really predictable and there was no twist at all (okey maybe one or two really small twists). When you start to watch you already know how it will end. But even if story was a bit boring it's still was well showed. Acting was good. It definitely was not excellent, but everyone did their job to make an action movie. And that's all. Cinematography and special effects was great. I could call it a basic action movie with guns, car crashes, people dying and secret agents. I would not recommend to watch this movie, but if you have nothing else to do than yes, of course you can watch this. Because it's not bad movie it's just the same us most of action pictures. At least it's not so bad us most of people are saying.
juneebuggy I tried to give this the benefit of the doubt despite the bad reviews but still lost interest pretty quickly. It's not that it's that terrible its just not all that interesting. The plot is your standard (generic) who can I trust, spy thriller, that you've seen a hundred times before. The Spanish location is refreshing and pretty as is Henry Cavill -pretty that is, but he's not a great actor and struggles through this leading role wearing some really bad clothes (I have to add.) Bruce Willis is given top billing but is barely in the movie and just seems to smirk his way through his scenes, I'm not even sure he's acting? And then we have Sigourney Weaver who kicks ass but I've seen her play this exact role before (Abduction) and she doesn't do a great job here either. On the plus side there's some great car chases and lots of action through the streets (and steps) of Madrid. 6/7/14