The Coldest Copy…
Cold Copy (2023) Movie Review
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“Cold Copy” is about a journalism student (Mia Scott) in a college course that requires a lot of commitment and is very competitive. But things get out of hand when she decides to make the subject of her class project story the son (Jacob Tremblay) of a celebrity who passed away under suspicious circumstances.
“Cold Copy” is a rather by the numbers movie pretending it’s edgy and new. This is the kind of movie that could have come out twenty years ago. Also, I think I’ve seen an episode of “Law and Order” like this, but the journalism student was murdered in that one. The problem with this film is a complete lack of depth when it comes to all of the characters. None of them seem like real people — they all feel like flat archetypes that exist just to move the predictable plot forward.
The main character Mia is supposed to be an ambitious journalism student, but we never really see what drives that ambition or get any sense of her as a complex person. She’s just a two-dimensional figure who will do whatever is needed to get the big scoop, no matter how unethical. We never go into her past to show why she is so driven. Rather we get some uninteresting exposition that is one step above party banter about her deceased mother. Similarly, Jacob Tremblay’s character is…
