The Cold Light of Day

I had fairly high hopes for The Cold Light of Day. Starring Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, the cast wasn’t bad, and with fairly attractive newcomers Henry Cavill and Verónica Echegui, the trailer certainly made it look like it had potential. How misleading that was!

Honestly, I can’t really be bothered to write much about this film, so woefully bad it was. Bruce Willis appears for about all of 20mins in the film, whilst Sigourney Weaver’s character is just bizarre – randomly muttering things throughout action scenes which just ruins any kind of drama. The storyline had the potential to be interesting – son goes on holiday to visit his family and discovers his father is a CIA agent after his family is kidnapped from their boat. Yep, all well and good. The problem here was definitely in the delivery of the story though, and it really was a catalogue of errors.

It’s times like these I’m pleased to have my trusty Cineworld card – I’d be loathed to have paid a tenner to see this confused and unconvincing waste of 90mins. Not entirely sure why so much weight was thrown behind the advertising of this stinker either – this is an occasion when it must have paid off for them though. I was certainly lured into the cinema under false pretences of an exciting action film. Can understand why Bruce Willis didn’t stick around for long in it though – he probably asked for his character to be killed off after filming began and he realised the enormity of the problem at hand here. Seriously – poor script, terrible acting and mediocre action scenes. Definitely needed to try harder on this one. Well below par 2/10 Kx