The Cold Light of Day

A vacationing American in Spain (Henry Cavill) becomes a desperate fugitive when his family—father, mother, brother and brother’s girlfriend—is kidnapped; it turns out Dad (Bruce Willis) was CIA, and may have gone rogue—or are the rogues the ones after our hero now? Writers Scott Wiper and John Petro never even try to answer that question; their script is a hunk of shapeless nonsense, and director Mabrouk El Mechri makes no effort to sort things out. Don’t be fooled by the presence of Willis or Sigourney Weaver as Cavill’s sinister antagonist: This is exactly the kind of shoddy, low-rent stinker the robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000 used to enjoy ripping to shreds. (Where are they now when we need them?) Cavill stars in Man of Steel, next summer’s Superman reboot. He’d better be damn good.