The Pay Day

How did this crap even get made? Maybe I don't understand british humor, or slang, but that shouldn't be a requirement to watch a movie. Usually, with the aid of captions, I can suss out what the slang means even if I can't understand the accent. I managed to watch about 40 minutes of this before angrily shutting it off. Wooden lines being delivered by robotic actors. Stultifyingly boring. I'm sure there's a whisper of a plot in there somewhere but since it took 40 minutes for the macguffin flashy drive to make its appearance and disappearance, I couldn't believe that there was anything worthwhile coming down the pike. I doubt the script ran longer than 50 pages, as the one-line-at-a-time dialog from the 1st eight characters barely account for three typewritten pages. Boring. Lackluster. Waste of time. Made me wish I could punch both Jenn & George & stuff a sock in Simon Callow's posh mouth.

The plot holes are massive. I mean you would have to suspend all reality of society to believe some of the things that occur to set up the "story" or "plot" or whatever this thing is.

Why do films like this even get made? How do scripts like this get financed? Black mail? I don't get it. Even the acting isn't great.

There are other parts where you will just shake your head and ask: Why. That's the main question. This is utter nonsense. Unless you're into watching a plot that moves in ways that confuse you and make you annoyed, I would avoid this movie.

This was the most pointless excuse of a movie I have ever seen. I want my time back. It started off very promising and just went all the way down under the hill from there. Acting was terrible maybe because the script was so poor. So sad. I'm so angry I can't give it less than a star. The only thing worse than sitting through it to see if it would by some chance redeem itself, was the ending. Such a waste of my time, energy and electricity.

This movie started on the right note. A silly crime caper about getting files worth $500 Million from a company and putting them on a thumb drive. The woman will get 1% of the take, which she desperately needs. And then the move starts to drag. And drag. And drag some more. Dead space between lines of dialog. The pacing so slow that your mind goes numb. A story that just disintegrates and nothing of any importance is said or done in the last hour.

I watched it to the end and can't even tell you who got the thumb drive or what they even did with it. I know it was a Mcguffin, but the interplay between the two leading actors was juvenile at best.

Avoid this movie like the plague.

Or watch it, if you need something to put you to sleep.

Really enjoyed this, the main characters are well matched in this little rom-com from London. Soundtrack is very groovy and I was left wanting more! Bring on Number 2!

Especially loved Simon Callow's work as the big baddy.

The chemistry between Kyla Frye and Sam Benjamin is a breath of fresh air and I for one cannot wait to see what they'll do next!

The film has great pace, albeit a slightly slow start but the film gets into it's groove once the 20 min mark is reached.

I especially liked the police officer characters, very funny and stole every scene they popped up in.

I think there's a lot more to come from this group of filmmakers and am looking forward to it.

A couple of moody film buffs that think they know the ins and outs of filmmaking seem to want to put this movie down but I'm all here for this type of film, especially after delving into what I could find online to learn about the team behind The Pay Day.

The plot doesn't reinvent the wheel but the talent on display in this from start to finish shine brightly and that isn't just the cast I'm talking about.

Real effort has gone into this and it's easy to tear down something that tries to be different from the hum drum of typical football firm/london gangster type movies coming out today.

Turn this on, have fun and mark my words, we'll see a sequel to this.