The Cold Light of Day (2012) Movie Review

Storyline

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.

Review

A bad TV movie

I went to see this film after I saw an initial rating on here of 8 out of 10, but let me tell you it is very, very poor.

The film is littered with blatant product placement to the point that I thought at some points I was watching a slick advert. The first of these adverts is when the film lead stops to buy a drink of coke for no reason and proceeds to slowly drink it with the can taking up most of the screen, really just like an advert.

This was a little annoying but I kept hope that this was a small issue in what could become a very good film. Unfortunitly it didn't and car and phone adverts continued through the film. The script was poor and events unbelievable. Most of the action scenes you will have seen copied from Bourne or other action movies but made laughably similar but much worse. The acting from weaver was poor, although I am not sure if the blame lies with sigourney or the director. To be honest Bruce Willis is by far the best actor and carries the film for the first 20min giving some hope it will become a good action film, unfortunately it did not.

I have never walked out on a film but after a number of laugh out loud moments ( at the film ), I was seriously contemplating it. I may be wrong but i think we have a nomination for a rotten tomato award.

3 stars is being kind,

Director: 

Mabrouk El Mechri

Writers: 

Scott Wiper, John Petro

Cast

	Henry Cavill	...	Will
	Verónica Echegui	...	Lucia
	Bruce Willis	...	Martin
	Sigourney Weaver	...	Carrack
	Joseph Mawle	...	Gorman
	Caroline Goodall	...	Laurie
	Rafi Gavron	...	Josh
	Emma Hamilton	...	Dara
	Michael Budd	...	Esmael
	Roschdy Zem	...	Zahir
	Óscar Jaenada	...	Maximo
	Joe Dixon	...	Dixon
	Jim Piddock	...	Meckler
	Fermí Reixach	...	Carlos
	Lolo Herrero	...	Reynaldo