Bad Day (2008)

Wonderful Movie

Absolutely Fantastic

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

why do i keep wasting my time and energy watching uk movies with low production values? I've seen a lot recently and none of them deserves to be called a professional movie.This one has a famous British actress who has done television but never had any success in movies. If she had done success in movies then she would not have appeared in bad day.The other main girl is very good looking ( with false looking teeth)but she has an accent I could not place. Is she English or trying to sound English? She is one of two actresses with odd accents in this.The story makes no sense SPOILERS the Policewoman files a sexual harassment against a male cop then later tells him she is pregnant and tries to be his friend.There are some fight sequences but the movie does not make sense. A girl from Girls Allowed is in this...she is an embarrassing actress.The men actors are no better. I downloaded this and it was waste of effort

This film was not, I repeat was not utter rubbish, a ghastly waste of time, or was it Illogical and inconsistent, I don't know what those people were watching but let me tell you it wasn't Bad Day.I rented Bad Day out from Love film. I didn't like The Killing Zone Diaz's last film but I liked what I'd read about "Bad Day". I still wasn't ready to be quite as blown away by it as I was; Bad Day is a gritty, moody, intense and very bloody.This film is a thriller but has some great funny one liners in it, it was also a high paced action film and showcase the directing talents of Diaz and the acting talents of Claire Goose and Anthony Ofoegbu. Claire Goose can really kick ass. (Well she kicked Donna air's ass). The first half builds up so you get to know what all the characters are about but once you do the film puts the pedal to the metal and the second half is relentless.Please note there's a great fight between the sexy Claire Goose and the sexy Donna Air and that alone was worth the rental fee.This is a good-cop, bad-cop film played out into a complex mystery, the movie is directed with style and the use of the hand-held camera and snappy editing create an appropriately gritty effect.Really great UK low budget film and just when you think that you finally have the story figured out, Diaz puts in one final twist that catches you like a bolt from the blue.This film as whole makes for excellent viewing during a late evening, 10/10 is my vote, and I'd recommend it to anyone who's into police thrillers.P.S. I don't know the film makers nor did I work on the film – so there!

Darius Cruise and his newly assigned partner, Abby Barrett, work a law enforcement sub-section dealing with the current London's underworld, called the Organized Crime Division (OCD). Their day is about to get very bad indeed. Rebecca Ryan, an OCD operative, has been working covertly inside the underworld's South-Side Mob. She turns renegade after her 15 year-old daughter is been found brutally murdered, believing this to be a revenge attack after her cover is blown.Rebecca begins taking down the South-Side mob one by one working her way up the chain of evidence, exacting terrible vengeance on everyone who crosses her path. She needs to avenge her daughter's death and Rebecca will stop at nothing to achieve this. Now the pressure is on for Darius and Abby to find Rebecca, track her down and bring her home before all hell breaks loose.A tiny film with big budget problems but works really well, it is a shame that this movie didn't end up in the cinema it's a great film that cost next to nothing to make. The plot is a good cop thriller in the mould of the old 70's thrillers where the lines between good/bad, right/wrong are unclear. The focus of the film is Rebecca Ryan play by the magnificent Claire Goose killing people left right and center but the film is much more than that, it has themes of bullying (Abby Barrett played by Donna Air), love, Rebecca Ryan falls for Harry McCann (a mob guy) and scenes of violence and tension that shifts everything forward. It is easily one of the best independent UK straight to DVD movies released this year. It takes a genre that is seen so often in US flicks and makes it feel fresh and enjoyable.As director, writer and editor Diaz is brilliant. His script is well written and has plenty of funny dialogue but it is the feel and look of the film that is great. If you like this film it is worth looking at the DVD extras, Diaz talks about the reasons behind what he did and it is impressive to hear and understand his thought method, and to make this kind of movie with no money is really impressive.The cast are outstanding, although really the film hinges on the three leads. Goose is great as the avenging angel her performance has sympathy, emotion and layers to it. Anthony Ofoegbu (new comer) is also good as the seen it all cop, and Donna Air does a good job as the good looking rookie very much secondary to Ofoegbu. Support from Tom Bacon is minor but he plays his part very well as the man that can get you a gun, there are other solid support roles too, but it really is Goose's film.A cop thriller that is darker and most of the time very effective, with a cool plot and a good twists near the end the film this has an extraordinary style to it and, while Goose is commend, the success and feel of this film is down to Diaz as both writer and director. With his talented and underpaid cast and crew he has turned a cool script into a very entertaining movie.

I'm still in shock, the following morning, at how atrocious this film was, and how I managed to sit through it with only short breaks to the loo and the fridge. This film has nothing to recommend it whatsoever - the plot is dire, the dialogue impossibly stilted and contrived, and the acting rates among the worst displays I have ever has the misfortune to witness. The gratuitous female violence will draw a few fans, granted, but even those fetishists will have a hard time sitting through such appalling pap. I could single out Donna Air for worst actress of the decade (a woman blessed with the looks of an east European model and a hard-to-identify Welsh-sounding accent attempting to carry off the role of a tough cop) but that would be to let the rest of the cast off too lightly; neither the main roles nor the bit-parts were played with an conviction or credibility. I guarantee this film will have you screaming in horror or laughing hysterically, depending on how you feel about devoting an evening to a truly dreadful piece of cinema.