Wow! Such a good movie.

An absolute waste of money

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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.

Bryan Cranston plays someone with an accent and it really works. We knew he is a good actor (especially those who've seen Breaking Bad), but him playing with that foreign accent is setting him apart from previous roles. I don't know if it was in the script or if he decided to go that way, but whatever the case is, it was genius.Alice Eve as mother standing tall against what is happening to her (from all sides that is), plays it really good. A nice thriller that has many ups and very few downs during the running time. It might be predictable, but that doesn't take away the fun you can have while watching it. Nice thriller with great performances and some graphic violence

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.

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.