Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Jonathan Roberts I assume I was drawn to 'Cold Comes the Night' for the same reason as many viewers: Bryan Cranston. I've worked my way through 'Breaking Bad' three times, and believe that even in a time of strong dramatic TV leads (e.g. Michael C. Hall, Jon Hamm, Charlie Hunnam), Cranston stood out as the greatest. I struggle to imagine even someone like Daniel Day-Lewis handling certain 'Breaking Bad' scenes as well as Cranston. I was therefore surprised to find that the strong performer in Tze Chun's 'Cold Comes the Night' is actually an actress I'd never heard of before: Alice Eve. I've long believed that a strong lead performance can elevate an otherwise bad film into mediocrity, and an otherwise mediocre film into a good one. Alice Eve shows the kind of protectiveness and desperation familiar to those who've seen Jennifer Lawrence in 'Winter's Bone', although she isn't as subtle as Lawrence. Although Eve's talents certainly make her scenes more enjoyable, I feel that the star attraction - Cranston - was woefully underused. His forced Russian accent stifles his ability to express himself, and his character's near-blindness could have been explored in far greater depth. These deficiencies prevent 'Cold Comes the Night' from rising above mediocrity. Tze Chun is a director I'm entirely (sans this film, of course) unfamiliar with. In bolder hands, 'Cold Comes the Night' could have been a very good crime drama. Unfortunately, the film doesn't escape the tropes of the genre, despite having sufficient scope and talent to do so.

srdjan_veljkovic 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

Roland E. Zwick After flying high for five brilliant seasons on TV's "Breaking Bad," Bryan Cranston lands with a thud on the big screen in "Cold Comes the Night," a murky and undistinguished indie crime drama written by Tze Chun, Osgood Perkins and Nick Smith and directed by Chun. It's unclear what the overall purpose of the movie is; we just know that it must be a "serious" work because nobody ever smiles and the sun never comes out.Chloe (Alice Eve) is a streetwise single mom who runs a motel where the local prostitutes and drug dealers regularly come to transact their business and sell their wares. Indeed, the locale is so questionable that child services is threatening to take Chloe's daughter away from her if she doesn't hightail her to a more appropriate place toot sweet. One of the motel's guests is a half blind hit man named Topo (Cranston) who finds himself stuck at the place after his assistant/nephew is involved in a double homicide and some important money goes missing. Topo suspects that Chloe may know the whereabouts of the loot, but the spunky Chloe figures she has little to lose in a high stakes gamble with fate. And thus the game is on…Eventually, so many bodies have piled up at Chloe's little roadside establishment that even the Bates Motel starts looking like a wiser lodging option for any weary traveler passing through the region.Cranston spends most of his time growling and scowling, while continually dropping his articles in a vain attempt at a Russian accent (although even that isn't done with any real consistency). It's a bit like Walter White (albeit with hair) playing at being Gus Fring - though with little of the complexity or charm of either of those two "Breaking Bad" characters. Eve suggests she might be worth watching in a role worth playing. This is not it.

CowherPowerForever As with most DTV films(Direct to Video) the budgets are small, and the stories are usually thin. No difference here, except the acting is very good as Bryan Cranston leads this low budget film.The story goes Chloe(played by the amazing Alice Eve) lives at a run down motel with her daughter. She runs the place and is trying to save enough money to get her out of there, and to someplace more acceptable. Early on in the film child services threatening to take her child away within two weeks in she does not move out of the motel complex. Topo played by the amazing Bryan Cranston is a near blind older man who is carrying out a job where he has to delivery a package of money. Helping him along the way is his sister's kid Quincy played by Robin Taylor, and tired after a long day on they road they decide to stop at a nearby motel for a few hours, which of course is the same motel run by Chole. Quincy decides he wants to spend the night with a prostitute and things quickly head south. Said prostitute ends up killing him, and the police quickly arrive on scene. Which presents a problem for Topo as the police take away the car they were driving in, and thus the package that was to be delivered.Later in that day when Topo goes to check out of the motel he takes Chole hostage so he can get his money back. Chole is friends with local police officer Billy played by Logan Marshall-Green. Topo makes her pick and pick at Billy until he can get any information on his package. Eventually the story ends up at the police impound lot where Chole is sent in by Topo to retrieve the package that was suppose to be behind the radio. It was of course gone and so continues the wild chase of events for the remainder of the film.Its not perfect or great, but if you are into low budget direct to video films as I am, it won't be a waste of time. Bryan Cranston and Alice Eve bring in top notch acting along the way as well. Overall if you can get your hands on this film it is worth a watch, no doubt about it.