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Jan 10, 2014 · Aside from the vividly bleak atmosphere, Alice Eve's performance is the main reason to invest any time "Cold Comes the Night," a low-budget neo-noir about desperate people in small-town, upstate New York.
Cold Comes the Night is a serviceable low-budget thriller with a pair of strong lead performances and intermittently suspenseful scenes. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 9, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 · 44% Tomatometer 43 Reviews 29% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings A motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a blind thief to be his eyes while he tracks down his cash. Read More Read Less...
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- Tze Chun
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- Alice Eve
- Lukewarm comes the Noir.
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By Jim Vejvoda
Posted: Jan 9, 2014 3:33 am
Move over, Walter White. Here comes Topo, the ruthless criminal played by Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston in the Neo-Noir thriller Cold Comes the Night, which opens in theaters and VOD on January 10.
The premise of this film, written and directed by Tze Chun, is sadly more intriguing than its execution. The story revolves around single mom Chloe (Star Trek Into Darkness' Alice Eve) who runs a seedy motel in rural upstate New York. Social services are giving her grief for raising her young daughter Sophia (Ursula Parker) in a motel where hookers and drug users are the regular clientele. But it's not like Chloe has the means to just uproot herself and her daughter and start anew elsewhere. That is until Topo comes to stay at her motel.
Topo is a Slavic criminal who's gradually going blind. That makes him vulnerable … to a degree. He's still as deadly as any other trapped animal. Topo is a courier on his way to Montreal with his ne'er-do-well nephew Quincy (Robin Taylor) to deliver some loot to the crime boss they work for. But after a murder happens at the motel, Topo's vehicle (hidden inside of which is the parcel of loot he's delivering) is impounded by the cops and he finds himself stranded at Chloe's place.
Topo coerces Chloe into serving as his eyes by taking her and the unsuspecting Sophia hostage. He needs her help if he's going to retrieve and deliver the loot to his boss or otherwise get whacked. Chloe, no wilting flower, agrees to help him -- for a price, which is pretty ballsy seeing as how most people would opt not to bargain with a gunman.
The idea of a criminal going blind and a struggling single mom who's not as innocent as she seems should have been fraught with tension and drama, but Cold Comes the Night leaves the viewer, well, cold despite the presence of an awesome lead like Bryan Cranston.
- Jim Vejvoda
- 49 min
Jan 9, 2014 · Film. Reviews. Jan 9, 2014 10:35am PT. Film Review: ‘Cold Comes the Night’. A post-"Breaking Bad" Bryan Cranston plays a Russian-accented mafioso in this capably assembled but...
Jan 9, 2014 · Cold Comes the Night: Film Review. Bryan Cranston, in his first post-"Breaking Bad" screen role, plays a half-blind criminal in this crime drima. By THR Staff.
Jan 9, 2014 · 1h 30m. By Manohla Dargis. Jan. 9, 2014. There’s more mystery in the grammatically anguished title of “Cold Comes the Night” than in this low-voltage thriller, which asks you to guess, if...
