The Cold Light of Day: Critic Reviews

Apes The Bourne Identity so slavishly yet so boringly it winds up with no identity at all.

A catastrophe worth noting only for the presence of its name cast.

Cavill is no substitute for Van Damme, whose self-critical performance gave the earlier movie much of its heft

Charging $10 for this movie is criminal; vouchers and letters of apology should be handed out at the exit for those stalwart viewers who stick it out to the end.

The script throws around phrases like "intel," "terrorist" and "rogue operative," but as time bombs go, the briefcase-versus-loved-ones ultimatum barely ticks.

... the kind of shoddy, low-rent stinker the robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000 used to enjoy ripping to shreds.

Sigourney Weaver, who last year suffered the indignity of backing up Taylor Lautner -- Taylor Lautner, for God's sake -- in the daft Abduction, now finds herself essaying the role of the villain in another action flick that's nearly as dopey.

The Cold Light of Day is an appropriately named action drama. It generates very little heat or light.

Fans of inane and/or unnecessary expositional dialogue will have a field day. Everyone else can Netflix Hudson Hawk and forget to watch it, thus having more fun than anyone who shells out $10.50 for this tedious stinker.

If you were to look up the word "generic" in the dictionary, you'd see a picture of this film's poster right next to it.

An average suspense thriller made a little better by a no holds barred performance from Sigourney Weaver

[Weaver is] the only one having any fun - and that includes the audience.

A perfunctory chase movie that drops in its tracks long before it reaches what's supposed to pass for a rousing climax.

If you are a Willis or Weaver completist then just wait until cable for this lifeless and uninspired waste.

Rather than defining those twists and turns with sharp punctuation, director Mabrouk El Mechri turns them into gentle speed bumps, making the film barely interesting rather than exhilarating

The Cold Light of Day is a colossal mess -- and amazingly dumb.