Cold Comes the Night (2013)

Pretty Good

Excellent but underrated film

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

You have to struggle to find a less thrilling thriller than this. I don't know if they were trying to go for originality when they decided to make the thrilling scenes as unthrilling as possible.None of the actors are bad per se, they just don't act out very much, for instance a woman is being held under gunpoint threatened by a ruthless Russian assassin and she doesn't seem to be scared of that situation one bit, actually seem rather bored and just want to get it done and over with.Bryan Cranston is not bad per se either but he's just plain boring, his character is dull and the fact that he's blind which could be interesting really turns out not to be.Scenes drag on forever and I struggle to find reasons to why I should care about the bozos in the movie.I read reviews on here saying that it's unconventional because it's realistic, oh really? So if someone threatens to murder you and your daughter you wouldn't be trembling your bones every second? I question your perception of reality if that is the case (no offence)

Every time I see a movie with the "perfect" aspect ratio of 1920*1080 or even 1280*720 (without the black bars) I know that it's going to be cheap. Most good movies do not fill the screen completely, which is a real shame by the way. Now the only reason I decided to watch this was because I was in love with the TV series "Breaking Bad"; the best TV show that has ever hit the screens. It seems to me that the director of this movie was trying hard to imitate Breaking Bad's style just because it's got Bryan Cranston in it. The cinematography, the acting, the type of actors and actresses used, who looked like real life American people (and thus bland) rather than eye candy super models, the background music being kept to a minimum as if it were non-existent, a dull countryside for a setting, a similar story-line, etc were all screaming "I'm a Breaking Bad wannabe".Unfortunately, while these features worked so well for a TV show with over 70 episodes, giving you a good opportunity to get used to the show's style and to care for the characters, the exact same features failed to make for an interesting, stand-alone movie. "Cold Comes the Night" is just about as "cold" as its title, and Bryan Cranston's cold acting, which perfectly fit Breaking Bad, fell flat on its face; this was made worse by him trying to act as a foreigner, who had surprisingly mastered all of English language's grammar but the most basic part of it; the usage of the articles "a" and "an", which sounded rather stupid. After watching this movie I can only hope that Godzilla is not going to be just as boring for having Bryan Cranston in it.

Nothing truly special or unusual: Just a really good crime drama that's a little too well-acted and realistic to be labeled a "thriller." COLD COMES the NIGHT is grimly riveting and constantly leaves you wondering what will happen next. Some layers, twists, and reversals, but it's still very easy to follow and, therefore, may be a little too episodic and simple for some tastes.CCN has a minimalistic low-budget appeal to it. We don't know a whole lot about the various players in the smaller town Mid-Atlantic setting. Nevertheless, it shows us all we really need to know. Violent, disturbing, but without cheap schlocky gore. I kept thinking, "This is how real murders must look and, especially, sound." Alice Eve gives a plain yet memorable performance as Chloe, a tough but compassionate single mother who manages the sleazy motel where all the trouble starts. The other actors do likewise in their roles. The script and cinematography are similarly real. Nice ending. Good, fitting soundtrack too. Though it doesn't try for anything big, COLD COMES the NIGHT accomplishes all it sets out to do and is a very watchable little film.

It's clearly a low cost movie, but it's well done! Well produced and acted. COLD COMES THE NIGHT is a little story about money, crime and betrayal where nobody can be claimed as innocent… Money is the centre of the entire plot and what a person can do for money is its main message… In fact, CHLOE (played by Alice Eve), the main character of this movie, seems, at the beginning, just a "normal" mother which has a hard life to sustain her daughter (and herself) working in a Motel as a receptionist; but along the movie we see she's as manipulative, greedy and criminal as the mafia's guy (TOPO, played by Bryan Craston) or the corrupt cop (BILLY, played Logan Marshall-Green), her ex-boyfriend. During the plot she proves she can do everything for money and even the excuse that it's all in the name of her daughter – to get some money to start a new life and give her better life conditions – seems a very little excuse to me. She did the same crimes for money as the other guys… I did appreciate this movie because it was quite entertaining, well-acted, and tells us a dark story about money and corruption in a very simple but realistic way.