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The Cold Light of Day
2012
Suspense/Thriller, Action
1h 33m
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.
Directed by:
Mabrouk El MechriThe Cold Light of Day
2012
Suspense/Thriller, Action
1h 33m
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Avg Percentile 19.1% from 244 total ratings
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Rated 19 Sep 2022
15
10th
Juste pour le plaisir des yeux. Henry Cavill qui arbore toujours son sourire de dandy, les beaux muscles et le torse poilu. C'est de la merde sinon.
Rated 19 Sep 2022
Rated 01 Sep 2012
25
3rd
Awful script and terrible execution! Woohooo!
Rated 01 Sep 2012
Rated 10 Jul 2012
12
1st
Henry Cavill's performance and character is terrible and Weaver looks more tired than ever. Pure Euro-trash.
Rated 10 Jul 2012
Rated 01 Mar 2015
20
15th
Pretty bad. Cavill runs away, then runs away more, then feigns getting sick to run away before getting his ass kicked. Okay, so he does fight at one point, but this business consultant manages to outwit rogue CIA agents and the Israeli secret service. There's nothing new with the action in this one. Bizarrely, we never learn what was in the briefcase, and more bizarrely, the ending of the movie hints at a potential sequel, showing how little taste the makes of this film feel moviegoers have.
Rated 01 Mar 2015
Rated 29 Jun 2015
0
4th
After a really bad start it became a shit-awful bourne clone.
Rated 29 Jun 2015
Rated 03 Nov 2019
30
17th
Superficial, uninteresting, predictable. In fact, it is so forgettable that I tried to watch it twice because I forgot about the first time. A waste of big-name actors, really. It almost feels like the headlining ones are there to trick people into watching the movie or nobody would have bothered.
Rated 03 Nov 2019
Rated 28 Mar 2018
20
3rd
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Rated 28 Mar 2018
Rated 18 Nov 2016
50
33rd
The two best things I can say about this incredibly average action thriller is that the main character is portrayed as an average person and not like an instant hero of a man with a past. Secondly I liked how they used the two big name stars in this film.
Rated 18 Nov 2016
Rated 10 Sep 2012
33
12th
Predictable in all ways except when it's actually supposed to follow the formula.
Rated 10 Sep 2012
Rated 22 Jun 2015
5
2nd
Every plot point character, scene, line, shot and cut is rife with "been there done that". The dialogue is orchestrated to make even the good actors in this look like horrible hacks. Poor echegui is the only one trying but she's sadly unaware that this is not her big Hollywood break...such a chore of a ugly by the numbers movie
Rated 22 Jun 2015
Rated 28 Jul 2013
68
26th
Some big names in this film but it really didn't help it out. The story seemed a little over complex and I found myself trying to remember what was going on. The movie focuses on this briefcase that's been stolen but then through the muddy writing you forget who even has it or if they have even revealed that information. Willis was only in this for about 20 minutes, Cavill was good and Weaver was an unbelievable villain. The stunts and some of the camera work were the best reasons to see this.
Rated 28 Jul 2013
Rated 19 Sep 2012
50
30th
A ordinary, but decent thriller. It doesn't waste time to get started and it is high paced most of the time. I wonder how they got Willis and Sigourney to be in it, though.
Rated 19 Sep 2012
Rated 06 Apr 2012
57
9th
By-the-numbers action thriller; some nice setpieces but ultimately forgettable
Rated 06 Apr 2012
Rated 02 Oct 2020
57
22nd
Everything was already said by others. Is this guy goddamn immortal though? It is like they wanted to be more realistic and avoid the "hero escapes explosions unscathed" trope, but forgot how injuries usually have consequences. That guy gets his face smashed in 12 times an hour but still manage to run around all day and all night anyway.
Rated 02 Oct 2020
Rated 03 Jun 2012
26
11th
Terribly shallow 'action' thriller, where the very few unpredictable surprises are all turns for the worst.
Rated 03 Jun 2012
Rated 03 Dec 2013
35
2nd
Kind of amazed that the guy who directed JCVD did this, since this is comprehensively bad, apart from brief flashes of visual inspiration.
Rated 03 Dec 2013
Rated 24 Aug 2014
50
28th
Big budget thing, with multiple bonus points going to Henry Cavill's biceps.
Rated 24 Aug 2014
Rated 17 Jan 2016
40
19th
ger; [The Cold Light of Day]; auf einer segelreise wird die familie eines jungen mannes gekidnapt, und dann muss er einen mysteriösen koffer suchen welchen die CIA hat.; (gute schauspieler, obwohl actionlastig eine langweilige umsetzung der story);
Rated 17 Jan 2016
Rated 09 Sep 2012
38
50th
Despite what the critics say, this movie is actually pretty good. There are some inconsistencies, but that is not unusual in this genre. You can expect a nice classic action movie, with plenty of gun play and chase sequences. In my opinion this movie is extremely underrated. The only thing that really bothered me is the selective use of focus in some of the scenes make it difficult to appreciate the setting in Spain. Overall if I were to give it a thumbs up or down, my thumb would be up.
Rated 09 Sep 2012
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