The Cold Light of Day

Summary: 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.

Release Date: September 07, 2012

Genres: Action, Thriller

Director: Mabrouk El Mechri

Writers: Scott Wiper

, John Petro

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Summit Entertainment, Intrepid Pictures, Galavis Film, Film Rites, Fria Luz Del Dia, A.I.E., Haven Entertainment, Picture Machine

Distributor: Film Rites, Summit Entertainment, Tubi TV

Countries: United States, Spain

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,763,583

International: $ 13,100,000

Box office:

Budget:$20MDomestic:$3.8MInternational:$13.1MWorldwide:$16.9M

Box office International:

Source: The Numbers

Production:

Summit Entertainment

(Lionsgate subsidiary)

25%

The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this 25% higher than the critics.

4%29%

The Metacritic audience rated this 19% higher than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

22/100

Metacritic User:

41/100

28%20%

28% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

20% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White73.33%Latino20%Jewish6.67%

2.15

Commonsensemedia

Violence3/5
Sex2/5
Language3/5
Consumerism1/5
Drugs2/5

Dove

Sex2/5
Language4/5
Violence3/5
Drugs1/5
Nudity1/5
Other1/5

This film gets a 2.15/5 family friendly score

Please help improve our site and

add a Family Friendly Rating.

CONTENT BREAKDOWN

Methodology

RottenTomatoes:

4%29%

Douban:

Eiga:

IMDb:

Metacritic:

Metacritic User:

OFDb:

Methodology

Cast

Stars:

Supporting cast:

Other Cast, Production

Other cast:

Production:

Representation

Star

Supporting

Other

Production

Race	White	Total	Visuals	Info
Kairos	14	14		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.kairos.com/demos
Forebears	3	3
Ethnic	1	1		This is the most reliable data source for accurate ethnic breakdowns of famous people. Often the information is crowdsourced by users and they cite all their sources (family trees, obituaries, census archives, etc.) on the bottom of the page. The only issue is converting their ambiguous and inconsistent verdicts into quantifiable variables. Source: https://ethnicelebs.com/
Total	18	18
Cast Percentages	100%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (2010) Percentage	63.7%		{"name":"U.S. Population (2010)","series":[{"name":"White","y":63.7,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0.55,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":5.61,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":12.6,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":0.92,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":0.9,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":16.3,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":4.56,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":1.71,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (2010) Representation	+36.3		{"name":"U.S. Population (2010)","series":[["White",63.7]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2010) Percentage	77.06%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2010)","series":[{"name":"White","y":9431400000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":603500000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":961200000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":82500000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1018000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":143100000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2010) Representation	+22.94		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2010)","series":[["White",77.06]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	71.15%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":11951648546571,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":1167575046537,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":1591592669815,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":121160969070,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1374819228748,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":591945348131,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	+28.85		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",71.15]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
World population (2007) Percentage	15.53%		{"name":"World population (2007) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":12338721324,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":38122017455,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":9214330072,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":103255750927,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":82249533677,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":220324384465,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":53380310758,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":143813838260,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":2242754357,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (2007) Representation	+84.47		{"name":"World population (2007) ","series":[["White",15.53]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+63.52		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
Notes

Tags / Keywords

abandoned boat airplane airport american abroad assassin assassination bankruptcy bare chested male boat brawl bus captivity car chase car crash car rollover cell phone cia agent cia central intelligence agency climbing a fence death death of father driving a car down stairs dropping anchor duct tape gag escape espionage family dinner father son relationship fight fistfight government government agent gunfight hairy chest half sister hand over mouth hand to hand combat held at gunpoint hostage ketch kidnapping knife lost luggage machine gun madrid spain martial arts mercenary mixed martial arts mossad mounted police murder murder of a police officer nightclub no opening credits no title at beginning parking garage pistol police police chase police officer police officer knocked unconscious police officer shot police officer shot with silenced gun police station public beach public square ramming a car reluctant hero rescue riding a bus rogue agent rooftop running for one's life sailing shooting a surveillance camera shootout shot in the shoulder shot to death silenced gun silencer sleeper hold sniper sniper rifle some scenes in black and white spy stabbed in the chest stone beach sunbathing swimming in open water tape over mouth thrown from a horse tied to a chair torture train station u.s. embassy unlikely hero uzi vespa villainess violence vodka warrior woman wears a bikini

Similar Movies

Parental Guide

Parental Guide: +add

This film gets a 2.15/5 family friendly score

MPAA Certification	No MPAA rating found yet. Add Family Friendly Rating?
IMDb Rating https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1366365/parentalguide last updated: 2024-10-26Update data
Commonsensemedia Rating https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-cold-light-of-day last updated: 2024-10-26Update data
Message 0/5	Nobody learns much of anything here. After his adventure -- and causing untold amounts of violence, wreckage, and death -- the character is offered a job (so there are no negative consequences).
Role model 0/5	The main character spends the entire film trying to rescue his family and doesn't seem to care how that comes about. He could actually be collaborating with terrorists, though the movie isn't clear on that point. He argues with people, wrecks cars and property, and, though he doesn't actually kill anyone himself, he's certainly around when people die. The rest of the characters aren't around enough to be role models.
Violence 3/5	Many bullets are fired, but characters seem to die more often from car crashes than anything else. One main character dies, and people are kidnapped. Lots of fighting and beating people up, but not a great deal of blood. In one harrowing scene, a character tries to help a gunshot victim, first by digging around inside the wound to find the bullet, and then cauterizing the wound with a hot spoon -- though most of this gory stuff happens just off screen.
Sex 2/5	No nudity or sex, but (spoiler alert) in a subplot it's revealed that the main character's father had an extramarital affair that resulted in another child; he kept this second family secret from his first family. Otherwise, the main character is seen shirtless in a couple of scenes, and another supporting character is seen in a bikini and kissing her boyfriend.
Language 3/5	Infrequent language includes one "f--k" and a few "s--t"s, as well as "bitch," "goddamn," "hell," and "oh my God." One character apparently says "f---ing," but the word is drowned out under the noise of a gunshot.
Consumerism 1/5	Quick shots of a Coca-Cola can, a BlackBerry mobile device, and a MasterCard.
Drugs 2/5	A family drinks wine at dinner. One character gulps down a glass after hearing some bad news. A minor character, a nightclub owner/manager, drinks lots of hard liquor every time he's on screen.
Dove Rating https://dove.org/review/9494-the-cold-light-of-day/
Faith 0/5	None
Sex 2/5	Man has child from affair; boyfriend/girlfriend kiss-1
Language 4/5	J/JC-4; GD-5; F-once spoken, twice mouthed; D-2; H-6; S-8; B-2; G/OMG-4
Violence 3/5	Constant chase and fight scenes; many people shot point-blank with little blood; stabbing; choking-2; several beatings with blood; car crashes with bloody results.
Drugs 1/5	Smoking; mild drinking.
Nudity 1/5	Cleavage; beach attire; short skirts.
Other 1/5	Rogue CIA agents.

Methodology

Other sources

boxofficemom.com
commonsensemedia.org
crosswalk.com

Global Consensus

Audience Reviews:

No results found

Critic Reviews:

The Cold Light of Day

DramaAction/AdventureMystery/Suspense We hope this review was both interesting and useful. Please share it with family and friends who would benefit from it as well.Movie ReviewWe've all had bad vacations....

Proper Review

Sep 7th 2012

Plugged In

#Christian #CenterRight

Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men

Although I have never been particularly fond of serial killers nor the American populous' peculiar obsession with them, I spent a goo

Contains Mention

Jul 27th 2017

Soiled Sinema

#DissidentRight

Submit a review link