Search results
People also ask
Is Cold Comes the night a good movie?
Is Cold Comes the night a B-movie?
Does in the Cold of the night have a review?
Where can I Watch Cold Comes the night?
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.
Jan 10, 2014 · Despite strong performances from Bryan Cranston and Alice Eve, Cold Comes the Night is undone by a series of illogical plot twists. Read Critics Reviews
- (101)
- Tze Chun
- R
- Alice Eve
Cold Comes the Night is a serviceable low-budget thriller with a pair of strong lead performances and intermittently suspenseful scenes.
- Lukewarm comes the Noir.
- Verdict
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 · Two determined and desperate souls collide in unlikely fashion in “Cold Comes the Night,” a capably assembled if ultimately unremarkable thriller outing for writer-director Tze Chun.
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. Serving as another reminder of the gap in...
Sep 19, 2013 · Cold Comes the Night – review This article is more than 10 years old Bryan Cranston is on Breaking Bad autopilot, even with a Polish accent, in an under-thrilling motel-bound crime pic
