pabobfin 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.

mmunier Someone gave us a great tip regarding this movie and stated that we'd be very thankful if we followed it. The tip was "Don't go to watch this movie at the theater, hire the DVD" ... I've got one better, just don't bother at all! I finished to watch it on TV and still wonder why I did watch it to the end. My only explanation has to be my naivety, I could not believe it would not improve till it was all over. I won't repeat what other have already said about it yet I agree 100% with the majority of them, save the stars they gave it. For me, if I was a star giver, I would have needed negative numbers as I felt zero was too much. I actually can't see any Bourne association with this piece of excrement, but used it since many reviews I read here seems to feel there was some "plagiarism" if I'm excused for using the term. It was just bad... I cringe when I see good actors advertising products; although I have enjoyed G Clooney in coffee adds along with other well crafted commercials that use well known actors, nonetheless I feel it's an immoral practice, especially when the product does not live up to its presentation. In the case of this movie this is exactly what we get great actors' names to attract our attention, then vacuum! And this is another side of this film that many did resent, a vehicle for merchandise advertisement. In that regard I'm quite immune and grateful for it but it did not help me to find anything good about "boring obscurity of day" So do remember to skip it all together. Don't thank me for it, but don't blame me for not making the warning strong enough. (did you notice? I ticked the spoiler box!

Jackson Booth-Millard I remember seeing the DVD cover for The Cold Light of Day many times in the last couple of months I worked at Blockbuster, I knew it was probably going to be typical run of the mill stuff, but easy entertainment all the same. Basically Will Shaw (Man of Steel's Henry Cavill) is a financial adviser from San Francisco, he is reluctantly visiting his family during summer break for a holiday in Spain, including with his father Martin (Bruce Willis), an adviser for the government. Following a minor sailing accident, and the family squabbling, Will swims ashore to get medical supplies and take some time to cool down, when he returns the boat is missing, after informing the police, he is taken to Zahir (Roschdy Zem), he knows where his family is. Will senses something is wrong and tries to make an escape, then Martin shows up and beats up the police officers, he reveals he is a CIA agent and that the family were taken hostage because of a briefcase he stole. They travel to Madrid where Martin meets with his CIA team leader Jean Carrack (Sigourney Weaver), Will stays in the car and watches them talk, Martin does not believe her when she says she no longer has the briefcase, Martin returning to the car is then shot dead by sniper Gorman (Joseph Mawle). In panic Will takes Martin's phone and gun, he is chased through Madrid by police and Gorman, he manages to escape, and makes a call on the phone to the kidnappers, they demand the briefcase in exchange for his family, he is given a meeting point and a deadline of 21 hours. Will arrives at Diego's office and meets receptionist Lucia Caldera (Verónica Echegui), who he spoke to on the phone, they are targeted by agents and escape across the rooftops, but Will is shot, Lucia takes him to a nightclub rather than a hospital, to a friend with medical experience, Lucia also reveals she is in fact Will's half sister, being Martin's daughter by another woman. Lucia comes up with a plan to lure Carrack out, Gorman is caught by bouncers and tortured for information, he gives nothing away, but Will suggests making him believe he has escaped and to follow him, this works and they find Carrack, she leads them to an underground car park, the two sides end up in a big car chase going through Madrid, with the roles reversed and Carrack chasing them. When the cars finally crash Lucia is seriously injured, Carrack is about to shoot Will, but a sniper shoots her, Zahir retrieves the briefcase, Lucia recovers in hospital, and gets to meet her half relatives as Will is reunited with his family, Will is offered a job in the CIA, it is unclear what his decision is. Also starring Jim Piddock as Meckler, Hook's Caroline Goodall as Laurie and Óscar Jaenada as Maximo. Cavill is only reasonable as the confused guy caught in the middle, Weaver does well as the treacherous CIA handler, Willis only gets a little time to be stern, it is a predictable story of a ransom and double-crossing over something vital you never get to see in a briefcase, and it is filled with the expected shoot-outs, punch-ups and chase sequences, I will admit some of these got my attention, but overall it is a very average action thriller. Okay!

Guy THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY starts out well and then gets worse. A Wall Street banker with business problems - not exactly sympathetic - goes on holiday in Spain with his family. Before you know it, they've been kidnapped and his dad - Bruce Willis in cash-the-check mode - is telling him that he used to be a CIA spy. This also marks the moment where all early promise is lost: the lovely seaside Mediterranean locations are left behind for the duller parts of Madrid, the built- up family drama is lost as all the characters bar one end up imprisoned for the rest of the film, and it all becomes a tired retreat of the Bourne style man-on- the-run film with everyone pursuing a mysterious McGuffin briefcase. The plot is of course implausible - although it is hilarious to see Roschdy Zem as a Mossad officer - and Henry Cavill makes for a buff but dull lead. Even the introduction of a pretty Spanish girl is wasted with a pointless plot revelation, leaving her as mere baggage. Everyone runs around shooting, brawling, chasing and doing sub- parkour but none of it means anything in the end.