The Cold Light of Day

2012 "Instinct is his greatest weapon."
4.9| 1h33m| PG-13| en
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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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Lawbolisted Powerful
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
borden7 Able Overacting, underacting, more holes in this story than Swiss cheese. Eg Will gets shot, he is on deaths doorstep, barley able to stand without help. Gets wound cauterized with a heated spoon and low and behold he is now
adonis98-743-186503 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. The Cold Light of Day stars Henry Cavill, Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis and well it's a film about a family that gets kidnapped and one of the sons who was left behind is trying to save them and his father helps him unfortunately the father played by Willis was there only for his paycheck and he dies like 20 minutes into the movie although i was surprised by how big Sigourney Weaver's role was. There's a lot of action, stunts and some tension here and there sure it has flaws it goes over the top a lot of times and it's even confusing at times thanks to Bruce Willis character who has made a big mess of the plot himself even after his death. But still i liked this movie it's not perfect or even amazing but i had fun with it and it was pretty cool to see Superman in an action movie shooting people and that's why i'll give it an 8 out of 10.
seeebalu One of the pointless movie with actors like Bruce Willis and Weaver made to look like jokers.Don't waste 90 min of your time watching this movie. This is the first time i reviewed a movie on IMDb. After watching the movie on a DVD I felt like 4.9 rating and some of the early reviews were so biased and generous which made a ridiculous far below average movie to sound like an average movie. No character development and the lack of plot made the action scenes laughable and pointless. I would give a zero rating if allowed to discourage this kind of pointless garbage on your face kind of movies with A-list actors.
Guy THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY starts out well and then gets worse. A Wall Street banker with business problems - not exactly sympathetic - goes on holiday in Spain with his family. Before you know it, they've been kidnapped and his dad - Bruce Willis in cash-the-check mode - is telling him that he used to be a CIA spy. This also marks the moment where all early promise is lost: the lovely seaside Mediterranean locations are left behind for the duller parts of Madrid, the built- up family drama is lost as all the characters bar one end up imprisoned for the rest of the film, and it all becomes a tired retreat of the Bourne style man-on- the-run film with everyone pursuing a mysterious McGuffin briefcase. The plot is of course implausible - although it is hilarious to see Roschdy Zem as a Mossad officer - and Henry Cavill makes for a buff but dull lead. Even the introduction of a pretty Spanish girl is wasted with a pointless plot revelation, leaving her as mere baggage. Everyone runs around shooting, brawling, chasing and doing sub- parkour but none of it means anything in the end.