A Cold Day in Hell

This film is just an embarrassment to film making and acting.

Not really much more to say.

Hammy acting, poor script, terrible editing.

I have seen decent films with Michael Madsen in and am amazed he had anything to do with this. Even his acting looks poor in this. None of the Characters have anything about them. Impossible to build any rapport or empathy with the characters or story line.

The best thing about this is the DVD Cover - hilarious - comparing this rubbish to quality western films like and 3.10 To Yuma and True Grit.

Please stay away from this "C Movie".

I Give Credit to everyone who cast and crew who used their real names in the CREDITS of this disaster of a film. Anyone with a home movie editor and a keyboard could have cut and mastered this film better. As for effect.. Water tower which could not hold water... See through Fronts.... Train Clips probably found in public domain video with train sound effects recored with a Edison machine. They should of at least used a Lionell Toy train for the wreck instead of a Cardboard cutout moving in a 2 second clip. Horrible plot. Way to many cuts and bad cuts. Music sounded like a child on a old church organ. Worst than BAD.. SO BAD it is worth watching just to see how poor a movie should not be made.

Any movie with Michael Madsen in it is a trademark of B-movie (B=Bad), definitely with poor screenplay, killing-me-over-and-over horrible deadbeat dialog, loose and stupid scenario/plot, mediocre or extremely bad directing, entry-level actors with poor or non-exist acting talent. This movie is no exception. Actors who acted in this movie always gave me an impression that they've suddenly forgotten their dialog, every word came up two second slow. Their performances were just too forced to look convincing. The costumes they wore were too modern, trying very hard to look cool. The gunfights in this movie also looked pretty phony too, especially when shot a guy with 5 shots overkill, no wonder the gun fighting scenes were littered so many brass shells. The gun powder blasts also sounded pretty unreal. The worst flaws of modern western B-movies were all included in this typically dragging one, i.e., everything looked just so unconvincingly unreal and tasteless like chewing a piece of cork.

Michael Madsen, eh? He's in barely a single scene with anyone else in it - my guess is he came on set for a couple of hours, did his bit and left. Even so, he was probably the best 'actor' in the film.

It looks like it's filmed in some Western theme park, and if there's a single gunfight where you can actually see the shooter and the victim in the same shot, I didn't notice it. Which would work if the editing wasn't so lamentable.

All in all, one for the bin. Straight to DVD? Why bother.

Even the production company haven't bothered to get their friends to write 10* reviews on IMDb.

It's tempting to believe it's a wry pastiche. But it's not. It's just rubbish.

To be honest the film seems like it was made at a high school club, The town is made from brand new wood (every building),The clothes look like they have all just been delivered from the dry cleaners the holsters are all brand new and they have silver guns. Whoever did the props needs to watch a western film not the milky bar kid advert from the sixties.I am an avid watcher of westerns and love a good ole gunfight but this lacked just about everything you like in a western ,Even the guns sounded like they were firing caps i could clap my hands louder

To sum it up it looks like a few people got together and played cowboys I gave it 1 out of 10 and thats because they don't have a 0