The Cold Light of Day
2012  PG-13  ACTION  1h 33min
CAST— Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Caroline Goodall, Rafi Gavron, Emma Hamilton, Jim Piddock, Paloma Bloyd
MUSIC— Lucas Vidal  DIRECTOR— Mabrouk El Mechri

     More like The Cold Sound of Silence. You know, from an empty movie theater? In this, pretty much the most boring action film in recent memory, Henry Cavill stars as a no-nonsense guy visiting his family in Spain. Unbeknownst to him his father (Bruce Willis) is a longtime CIA operative with enemies galore, both inside the agency and out. Soon Cavill is on his own in Madrid, on the lookout for a mysterious briefcase that contains who-knows-what. But who can he trust in this new world of secrets and lies? Though riddled with action the film fails to generate thrills of any kind. The one potential saving grace is the presence of a genuine action star… who’s gunned down about thirty minutes in. The filmmakers must have thought that they were thinking outside the box when they threw in that briefcase; in actuality it’s just another MacGuffin, a plot device that helps to move the story along but is, in the long run, kind of useless. Much like the rest of the film.
OUR RATING— * ½