Great Film overall

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Lately, action/thriller movies are full of these strong women who are totally unreal. When this trend started, it was new, thus interesting and, when pushed to extreme, this can be interesting any time (e.g. Kill Bill). But, in general, it's getting old.Here's a movie that gives a believable strong woman. Only once, towards the end, when the authors ran out of ideas, does she show unbelievable strength in a fight with a big guy. Also, she doesn't go towards the cliché of femme-fatale, using her looks to get what she wants.I don't really care if the main character is a man or a woman, but, in current state of affairs, this is refreshing.Other than that, the film is OK. Alice Eve shows she can act and not just look pretty, and the main villain (more of an anti-hero) does his job adequately. Others are not as good, but, not really bad.The story and it plots and twists are a little too much, but OK. It's actually fine until the last part, where, as mentioned above, authors run out of ideas. The last part spoils it a little, but, it's still OK.There is a sense that it could have been at least a little better

Every time I see a movie with the "perfect" aspect ratio of 1920*1080 or even 1280*720 (without the black bars) I know that it's going to be cheap. Most good movies do not fill the screen completely, which is a real shame by the way. Now the only reason I decided to watch this was because I was in love with the TV series "Breaking Bad"; the best TV show that has ever hit the screens. It seems to me that the director of this movie was trying hard to imitate Breaking Bad's style just because it's got Bryan Cranston in it. The cinematography, the acting, the type of actors and actresses used, who looked like real life American people (and thus bland) rather than eye candy super models, the background music being kept to a minimum as if it were non-existent, a dull countryside for a setting, a similar story-line, etc were all screaming "I'm a Breaking Bad wannabe".Unfortunately, while these features worked so well for a TV show with over 70 episodes, giving you a good opportunity to get used to the show's style and to care for the characters, the exact same features failed to make for an interesting, stand-alone movie. "Cold Comes the Night" is just about as "cold" as its title, and Bryan Cranston's cold acting, which perfectly fit Breaking Bad, fell flat on its face; this was made worse by him trying to act as a foreigner, who had surprisingly mastered all of English language's grammar but the most basic part of it; the usage of the articles "a" and "an", which sounded rather stupid. After watching this movie I can only hope that Godzilla is not going to be just as boring for having Bryan Cranston in it.

Bryan Cranston, a brilliant actor for his Breaking Bad work, is not really convincing to me as a foreign bad guy. His choppy foreign dialog was not very authentic in my view. There were other questions in the story line I could not parallel such as, he wants the Chloe character to find a "package" behind a car radio slot and a bit later this "package" turned into a huge bag of money with stacks so large they would never have fit into such a small space behind a car radio. It's hard to imagine a hardened killer, dispensing with lives so easily, leaving anyone alive for this "package", especially the dirty cop who comes back into the picture. I mean really, he's gonna gun down the wife and not the cop character. I just didn't buy it. Also, lots of needless use of the "f word". I just don't understand anyone thinking this word, if used over and over again, has any impact other than to bring down the intellect of any movie it's in at least 75 I.Q. points. A shame in any movie.This one gets a 4.

It's clearly a low cost movie, but it's well done! Well produced and acted. COLD COMES THE NIGHT is a little story about money, crime and betrayal where nobody can be claimed as innocent… Money is the centre of the entire plot and what a person can do for money is its main message… In fact, CHLOE (played by Alice Eve), the main character of this movie, seems, at the beginning, just a "normal" mother which has a hard life to sustain her daughter (and herself) working in a Motel as a receptionist; but along the movie we see she's as manipulative, greedy and criminal as the mafia's guy (TOPO, played by Bryan Craston) or the corrupt cop (BILLY, played Logan Marshall-Green), her ex-boyfriend. During the plot she proves she can do everything for money and even the excuse that it's all in the name of her daughter – to get some money to start a new life and give her better life conditions – seems a very little excuse to me. She did the same crimes for money as the other guys… I did appreciate this movie because it was quite entertaining, well-acted, and tells us a dark story about money and corruption in a very simple but realistic way.