The Cold Light of Day (2012)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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

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.

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.

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