Bad Day

I can't believe all the good reviews for this film. Most of them are by people who joined the IMDb, gave this film a glowing review within 24 hours and then never contributed to the site or message boards again. What a coincidence!

Anyway I had the choice of giving this a glowing review or an honest review. I chose to give an honest review to counter all the fake positive ones.

I didn't like this movie at all. I didn't feel it was worth the cost of buying it.

To deal with the positives first. Claire Goose is excellent in the lead role. There is one good fight scene between Claire Goose and Donna Air.

That is the end of the positives I'm afraid.

The negatives are everything else. Donna Air isn't as bad as her detractors suggest but she doesn't hold her own against Goose. The other performances are all weak. The script doesn't make sense. The low budget is all too apparent, Bad Day looks like a you tube video.

This film has a reasonable story and is a decent enough action-filled romp.

However, the dialogue is truly awful in places.

The casting of Donna Air as a policewoman was a truly awful decision.

She did not look at all believable in this role.

Some of the acting is third rate.

Victoria Broom and the police chief's performances were particularly poor, I thought.

Claire Goose's performance, on the other hand, was very good and really quite believable.

A 6 is pretty generous here.

Lectureral

Wasted enough of my time watching the film to waste much more reviewing it, so suffice to say it was bad.

Acting = bad. Characters = bad. Script = bad. Story = bad. Fight sequences = bad. Driving in a wobbly car = bad. The over-illuminated dashboard = bad. The editing and score almost reached the dizzy heights of mediocre...but not quite and still = bad.

It started off bad then progressed to a new level of bad especially when being introduced to moody cop saying 'same sh1t, different day' to himself...and he was also one of the writers.

In fact, let's just comment about the writing. You know when one film pays homage to another by using some of the script...seems the writers thought this would be good but then changed every other word to avoid being the same resulting in what can only be described as...you've guessed it = bad.

What it looked like, was a school project with no budget and 25 script writers disagreeing so much that every piece of dialogue was an unsuccessful compromise.

Best bit was watching Donna Air being beaten up in a girl fight.

It was bad, okay? Not even one of 'Girl's Aloud' in the cast saves it.

My wife summed it up as the final credits rolled and she said, to the screen, "You should all be ashamed of yourselves". And if you do get this far, just ask yourself why all the detectives were blessed/cursed with OCD? Monk wannabes?

One of the silliest crime movies I've seen in awhile. Claire Goose stars as an undercover detective working as a taxi courier. She's fallen in love with the guy she's supposed to be tracking. Donna Air unbelievably is a hardened police detective who's pregnant to a totally repulsive fellow detective. Claire Goose's character finds her daughter dead and goes on a rampage killing everyone she believes has anything to do with the murder. She's heading for her boyfriends sister, who is a total nutcase. There's some decent action sequences but that's the least you should expect in a thriller.

One to be watched and forgotten.

It wasn't easy, but I was curious, so carried on watching it. My advise, if you manage to watch the first 35 minutes, the dynamics change and the pace becomes faster. Seems as if something changed in the whole movie. Theoretically it's the same director... Otherwise the end of the movie is a bit surprising. The plot could have been developed to an exciting thriller with more artistic approache to the faith that governed the story, so that opportunity was missed. I guess being a low budget movie you cannot expect better cinematography neither. The six stars are for the movie after 35min. Before that I'd give maybe 3 stars.