Perhaps I should mention upfront that Bruce Willis is in The Cold Light Of Day for ten minutes. I think I should mention this to my readers because this is the only thing saving the newest action thriller from director Mabrouk El Mechri from going straight to video. Mechri's only previous work in the standing ovation worthy JCVD...an exploration into the life of an action star. The thing Mechri did their was give his audience a deeply personal look at an interesting man. Here...he does quite the opposite. He separates himself from his audience with a bland leading man and an uninteresting plot.
That bland leading man is Henry Cavill and that uninteresting plot is a chase for a briefcase between him and an intelligence agent (Sigourney Weaver.) The problem with the film is that neither character is interesting and in fact we are rooting for Weaver-the bad guy because Cavill-the good guy has no personality. Words actually fail me at describing this film's awfulness. It is unoriginal, clumsy, ugly looking and just plain boring.
The Cold Light Of Day tries to get touching at the end but the damage has already been done. The acting is horrible and yet the cast tries way too hard. There is also a scene in a nightclub involving strobe lights that is just plain unendurable. Come to think of it-the whole movie is that way. It builds up to a climax that is nothing short of boring and forces us to sit through an hour and twenty minutes more of crap. The film also drops serious plot points for its own convenience.
I would recommend skipping The Cold Light Of Day altogether. If you see it in a two for a dollar bin at your local video store in a couple of months (which is a very likely thing to happen)...maybe watch it then for the ten minutes Willis is in. Otherwise...see something else this weekend...anything.
(1/2 star out of 5 Stars, The film is rated PG-13 for language and sexual content)
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