Dead in a Heartbeat

Tension 9 - Perhaps you may predict who is going to make it and who isn't, nevertheless many situations are guaranteed to deliver chills to your own heart.

Story 6 - A deranged high-tech wiz out of vengeance implants bombs into the pace-makers applied to Dr.Gillian(Penelope A Miller)'s patients. Task of the surgeon will, of course, be removing them before they explode, with the aid of an artificer (Judge Reinhold). Original idea (with so many crazy people around these days, I don't find it so absurd), although the fact that the killer is omniscient makes it unrealistic. I understand she is meant to look self-assured, however Penelope at the beginning does surgery like she is mixing salad.

Ending 6 - Ordinary

OVERALL 7 - Good high-paced movie with fast action and sharp dialogue; the first scene is recommended for those not yet convinced that cigarettes are bad for the health.

This is one of the most absurd movies I've ever seen. A madman who is going around placing bombs in pace makers, this movie combines the standard mad bomber movie with the standard medical chase movie and tosses in the cliche of the bad guy going after the family of the hero at the end.

The unique thing about this movie is that as bad as it is (and it is just wrong to make a movie like this) Judge Rinehold actually does one of his better acting jobs in this movie. (Imagine if Billy from Beverly Hills Cop 1 didn't go nuts and became a normal cop.)

Ouch!!! What a horrible movie. I never ever seen such a combination of bad acting, bad action and bad writing in one and the same movie. Dead in a Heartbeat never had a heartbeat it was just dead, flat, boring, and I honestly can't believe I wasted 2 precious hours of my life watching this crap.

It started out awfully, as most TV action movies do, but I hoped it would get better, and since there was nothing else on TV I decided to keep on watching. That was a BIG mistake. It just got bad. And when you thought things couldn't get any worse, they did. I honestly can't believe that any TV station at all with any dignity would produce this. It was like a bad porno movie without the porn. I mean I could have written this script. WHEN I WAS 12 !!!

To sum it all up: Just don't watch this movie, It sucks more than one likes to believe.

Somewhere in the middle. The acting from both main characters are OK, Judge Reinhold is doing fine, and I also liked Fuvio Cecere as Berman. It's a mediocre TV-movie although, as it's way overpacked with clichés...too bad, it could have been better, as the acting is fine.

4/10

I didn't have high expectations from this one. But i was wrong. Dead In A Heartbeat is a very good movie, considering it was made for tv only, with low budget and not too good actors.

The story is tempting, original and interesting. Yes, the script has some cliches, and yes, some lines are stupid, and yes, the actors do seem out of their place sometimes. But that doesn't change the overall feeling of a good movie. It's fast paced, original, well directed and well edited.

Vote: 7 out of 10.