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The Cold Light of Day (2012) 4.9
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4.9/10 from 24,355 users
Metascore: 22/100
Reviews: 103 user | 114 critic | 10 from Metacritic.com 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. Director:Mabrouk El Mechri |
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Cast
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Lucia
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Gorman
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Josh
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Dara
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Esmael
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Zahir
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Maximo
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Dixon
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Meckler
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Reynaldo
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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.
Plot Keywords:
sailing | duct tape gag | held captive | driving a car down stairs | ramming a car |Taglines:
Instinct is his greatest weapon.Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
4 April 2012 (Spain) See more »Also Known As:
Az igazság nyomában See more »Box Office
Budget:
$20,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$1,831,588 (USA) (7 September 2012)Gross:
$3,749,061 (USA) (28 September 2012)Company Credits
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[Last lines]
Carrack: Aw is that your father's gun? I'm sorry
[raises pistol]
Carrack: are you looking for something like this?
[gasps as she is shot with a sniper rifle by Zahir]
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Despite prominent billing in the credits, Bruce Willis only has about 30 minutes of total screen time. See more »Goofs
Will pulls and releases the slide on his semi-automatic pistol twice (once in the lavatory and once outside the uncle's flat), after he's already fired it in earlier scenes. This would have ejected a round already in the chamber. See more »Quotes
Carrack: Oh, Will. What a mess. Looks like you're going to need some more stitches. And your little dead friend, too. Your mother's gonna freak out.[Last lines]
Carrack: Aw is that your father's gun? I'm sorry
[raises pistol]
Carrack: are you looking for something like this?
[gasps as she is shot with a sniper rifle by Zahir]
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If I have to describe this movie with just one word, this will be: "flat".
It is when a movie tries so hard to be original when you know that it will fail miserably in doing so.
From the start the movie is victim of a thousands clichés that on and on progress from worse to unbearable as the movie end.
There is no character progression whatsoever, dialogs are flat, there are no indications of a script, there is none in fact.. Two sides looking for a briefcase that contains a "something" that is not even mentioned in the end is a pathetic attempt as a plot resource.
Even worse is the fact that Bruce Willis is non-existent in the movie, he is basically just for the sake of putting his face in the front cover of the movie.
Sigourney tries so hard with SO little, she surely doesn't need to accept this kinds of roles, specially with movies such as this one.
There are so many plot holes and incoherences that I completely lost all my interest 50% into the movie, for example, in the first 40 minutes of action, our main character was surrounded by cops as soon as he displays a gun, he couldn't move without being surrounded by cops, he even manage to have a warrant order for arrest from the local police, but, incredibly enough, the last 40 minutes of the movie we see car crashes, tourist and local people being killed for no reason, shooting in the streets, so on and so forth with ZERO cops, totally ridiculous!
The movies is a pathetic attempt at an action movie, flat and excessive in violence for no other reason than the lack of a good script.
It doesn't even deserve a 2 in my scale, since any B-movie will surpass this one very easily.
My advice, do not waste your time on this one, it's flat, boring, very unoriginal, being done a million times before and much better.. if you want to see real action with a good script, please, rent or take out of your personal collection the first Die Hard, you will be much more entertained, even if you saw it a hundred times.
Total waste of good actors.
1 out of 10, horrible.