MOVIE REVIEW - The Cold Light Of Day

New this week, opening up to a tremendous thud at the box office was the soon to be forgotten, The Cold Light Of Day.

I saw this movie and I still have no idea what that title means for this movie. Or any movie. I think they just found some words to try to be dramatic, and try to dress this thing up a bit, but they failed . This is just not very good.

This is the story of a young man and his family. He flies across the ocean to spend a week with his parents and his younger brother in Spain on their yacht. His dad is some kind of big wig with the government in foreign affairs. But low and behold, he actually works for the CIA. What a shock, because if he was anything else we would not have a movie. Sarcasm aside, the young man comes to discover that his entire family has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. Seems that his CIA father is suspected of being an agent gone wrong, and it is in the name of world security they get this settled.

The father (Bruce Willis) is then killed by, guess who? The CIA, who is actually framing him because one of the other agents has actually gone wrong. Willis is in the movie for about 10 minutes. So, the young man sets out to find his family, and make things right. He hunts downs the actual rogue agent (Sigourney Weaver) and clear his fathers name. By the way, as bad as Weaver is, you'll be wishing she was only in it for 10 minutes, but you have to suffer through the entire flick with her.

Alright, this is all so incredibly silly, it's hard to really get a grasp on this. What this is a is a series of long chase and action scenes that really become boring after a while. It is filmed with the beautiful backdrop of Spain, but it can't save it. Long.drawn out action scenes that go nowhere, and an ridiculously written plot line sink this almost right out of the gate.

I don't know what is harder to digest. The fact that this is terribly dumb, or how this really made it to the theaters and not straight to video. But it was released on the slowest weekend in ten years, so even the movie makers must have felt it had no chance. And they would be right. Willis and Weaver are on the marquis, but pay no mind. They stink here, the plot stinks here and there's no saving it in any way.

The Cold Light Of Day. Never should have any light of any day.