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The Cold Light of Day

Name: The Cold Light of Day
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Genre: Action, Thriller, Mystery
Released: 2012-04-04
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 4.9
Cast: Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Verónica Echegui, Joseph Mawle

2012 · 1h 33m · Action, Thriller, Mystery

IMDb 4.9 Metacritic 22 RT 4%

Skip it. This is a forgettable mid-2000s action thriller that checks every generic box without adding anything fresh—Henry Cavill's pre-Superman charm can't salvage a paint-by-numbers plot about a briefcase MacGuffin and kidnapped family. There are a dozen better thrillers you could watch tonight.

Plot

After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.

Director: Mabrouk El Mechri

Cast: Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Verónica Echegui, Joseph Mawle

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