Cold Comes The Night (2013)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 23
Despite strong performances from Bryan Cranston and Alice Eve, Cold Comes the Night is undone by a series of illogical plot twists.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 7
Despite strong performances from Bryan Cranston and Alice Eve, Cold Comes the Night is undone by a series of illogical plot twists.
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A dangerous criminal Bryan Cranston) takes a desperate hotel owner (Alice Eve) and her young daughter (Ursula Parker) hostage in a last-ditch effort to retrieve his missing cash from a corrupt cop in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from writer/director Tze Chun (Children of Invention). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Alice Eve
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Bryan Cranston
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Logan Marshall-Green
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Ursula Parker
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Leo Fitzpatrick
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All Critics (40) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (23) | DVD (1)
"Cold Comes the Night" provides Eve with an opportunity to showcase yet another side of her talent.
Top CriticA bland and preposterous thriller in which Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston play unlikely partners in crime.
A tense little thriller that provides juicy roles for its deft lead actors, Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston, as well as some well-played action and several neat twists.
Cold Comes the Night is a serviceable low-budget thriller with a pair of strong lead performances and intermittently suspenseful scenes.
It's hard not to be impatient with a movie as openly lazy as "Cold Comes the Night," which is redeemed only by its performances.
Cranston, in a fake beard and dark glasses, seems to be enjoying his goofy act. Trouble is, this isn't the kind of movie in which goofy earns goodwill.
The plot and characters all appear to be consequences of a group of writers that just didn't have a single iota of originality among the three of them, and as a result, it's simply not worth your time.
...a better-than-average thriller...
Derails in the end, trying to neatly wrap-up a picture that demands a more sophisticated conclusion, but the basics sustain allure, especially when they're competently performed.
Cranston's accent is Dick-Van-Dyke-in-Mary-Poppins-bad.
The film will leave you positively chilly ... and wishing Eve's talents had been suited by a better movie.
Viewers who aren't desperate to see Bryan Cranston play an offshoot of Walter White would do well to instead seek out past noirs that have made more out of this premise.
Might have been at least a little diverting had even an ounce of ingenuity been applied.
Perfectly serviceable B-movie noir.
You want to root for this little movie because it works so hard. But, finally, to not nearly enough effect.
Suspenseful, low-budget neo-noir thriller, loaded with a pervasive aura of treacherous violence and atmospheric isolation.
A crime drama so forgettable it practically erases itself as it runs, Cold Comes The Night has just one real selling point: Bryan Cranston.
Even with the likes of Cranston as its main adversary, Cold Comes the Night is pretty humdrum.
Audience Reviews for Cold Comes The Night
Super Reviewer
Good Film! Entertaining little movie. I can't come to any major complain in general. It was watchable and involving, had a very good pace and a convincing role of the lead criminal. Acting was fine. I also found the movie somehow natural and charming. Cold Comes the Night kept me tense and engaged all the way through. The characters were refreshingly multi-layered and the cinematography was fantastic.
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.
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Super Reviewer
A story of Chloe, a motel owner and a single mother living with her daughter Sophia was somehow familiar but still kept my interest until the end! When Topo, half blind man arrives in her motel traveling cross country with his associate John, there is a trouble! John spots a prostitute, Gwen, and they spend few hours together... of course, they get into an argument and John shoots her, waking Chloe up. She goes to investigate to find Gwen and John dead. But, that is not the end of the story!
This film is the second feature collaboration between director Tze Chun and producer Mynette Louie; their previous film Children of Invention premiered at Sundance in 2009. As I said, it was interesting and I even enjoyed some of the improbable screenplay solutions. Perfect for a cold nights with a big screen TV!
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