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The Cold Light of Day (2012)

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The Cold Light of Day (2012)

Overview

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.


Starring Cast


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate

Viewer Rating
3.2

Overview

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.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Prime Video logoPrime Video
Apple TV logoApple TV
Google Play logoGoogle Play
Powered byJustWatch

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film is a generic action-thriller centered on individual survival and family protection within an espionage plot, and its core conflict lacks an inherent political valence, focusing instead on personal stakes and genre conventions.

The movie features a cast with some visible diversity, but it does not include explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. The narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities and does not explicitly critique them or center DEI themes.

Secondary

The Cold Light of Day does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its plot. The film's focus is entirely on a straight family's struggle against a conspiracy, with no depiction of queer identities or experiences.

The film 'The Cold Light of Day' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on an action-thriller plot involving espionage and a family kidnapping, with no elements related to transgender identity.

The film does not feature any female characters who engage in and win close-quarters physical combat against one or more male opponents. Female characters are present, but their roles do not include direct physical combat victories against men.

The Cold Light of Day (2012) is an original action-thriller film with no pre-existing source material, historical figures, or legacy characters. All characters were created for this specific movie, thus precluding any instances of gender swapping.

The film "The Cold Light of Day" is an original screenplay, not an adaptation of pre-existing material with established characters. Therefore, there is no prior canon or historical record to compare the characters' races against, precluding a race swap.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

3.2

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
4.9
The Movie Database logo
5.4

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
0.4
Metacritic logo
2.2

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