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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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"Cold Comes the Night" provides Eve with an opportunity to showcase yet another side of her talent. Jan 10, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
"Cold Comes the Night" provides Eve with an opportunity to showcase yet another side of her talent.
Christy Lemire
A bland and preposterous thriller in which Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston play unlikely partners in crime. Jan 10, 2014 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…
A bland and preposterous thriller in which Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston play unlikely partners in crime.
Kyle Smith
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. Jan 9, 2014 | Full Review…
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.
Gary Goldstein
Cold Comes the Night is a serviceable low-budget thriller with a pair of strong lead performances and intermittently suspenseful scenes. Jan 9, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Cold Comes the Night is a serviceable low-budget thriller with a pair of strong lead performances and intermittently suspenseful scenes.
Claudia Puig
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. Jan 9, 2014 | Full Review…
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.
Manohla Dargis
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. Jan 9, 2014 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
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.
Joe Neumaier
The film's quality of the acting is not matched by more adventurous material. Without its two lead stars, Cold Comes the Night would be little more than a glorified DTV also-ran. Mar 1, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The film's quality of the acting is not matched by more adventurous material. Without its two lead stars, Cold Comes the Night would be little more than a glorified DTV also-ran.
Amon Warmann
Cranston has plenty of menace left over following the end of Breaking Bad, and his fans will forgive the distracting Polish accent he keeps up through the film. Aug 18, 2014 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Cranston has plenty of menace left over following the end of Breaking Bad, and his fans will forgive the distracting Polish accent he keeps up through the film.
Austin Trunick
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. Mar 3, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Jeff Beck
...a better-than-average thriller... Feb 26, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
...a better-than-average thriller...
David Nusair
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. Feb 6, 2014 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
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.
Brian Orndorf
Cranston's accent is Dick-Van-Dyke-in-Mary-Poppins-bad. Jan 13, 2014 | Full Review…
Cranston's accent is Dick-Van-Dyke-in-Mary-Poppins-bad.
Alonso Duralde
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three stars
Sometimes the fight of your life comes in the dead of night. 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.
Tze Chun follows the money in Cold Comes the Night.
This 90 minute crime drama flows at a slower, yet steady pace to reach its conclusion. The plot details reveal enough, but at the same time leaves a sense of mystery, and this is where this picture thrives, all the while leaving things to the imagination.
Far from an action movie, it does have its share of violence. It wouldn't be a crime drama without it; however, the R-rated material is equally due to the language as it is the blood content.
Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston put up some "cold" performances, which is what this film is going for. The latter is great to watch with his Polish accent. Logan Marshall-Green provides the more livelier of performances that works well in contrast to the two leads.
Cold Comes the Night isn't perfect, but in the end it is a recommendable crime drama.
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