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.

Bad day for acting yeah

I'm having to watch this as if it's a comedy.

Because it's worse than a secondary school production..

Bad wigs and character outfits ( over sized gold chains)

Low budget

Over exaggerated characters

Unbelievable story lines.

Scenes that make no sense

Poor camera work

Just such a strange thing to find on Netflix in 2022. I'm pretty disappointed that my subscription allows for it.

It was so bad it was interesting to see how bad it would get and if the actors could rest keep a straight face whilst reading the script and filming the scenes.

I just can't believe it.

RIGHT, so I saw some of the reviews on IMDb and thought OK let's see for myself. My husband wanted to see the movie so I brought it on line. Do not be fooled by the reviews on this site. I don't know if these people are haters of UK films or just movie snobs, but it was a good movie. It has a good pace, bits of action and the story has a few twists, all in all it is a good low budget movie. The director did a very good job, Claire Goose was brilliant but Donna Air was so wrong for the part she was cast as, but she did a fair job. The movie is basically about an undercover cop, (Claire Goose), who goes on a killing spree when she finds her daughter dead. Two cops one being Donna Air is assigned to bring her back. I won't spoil the rest of the movie but I have to say I thought it was really good. See for yourself and don't go on the bad reviews said here.

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?

No pun intended - and I reckon some might feel that I am "upgrading" the movie or elevating it with my summary line ... maybe you do not even care about that though. What you should care about though: low budget movies ... if you can't stand them ... I would be surprised why you are here in the first place, but even so ... this really takes things to a new (low) level ... I assume for many.

Do not expect this to have actors in the traditional sense ... or none that really entice you ... take control of your screen ... anyone who is able to reel you in ... glue you to their lips ... wait is that last one a pun or innuendo? Hopefully not ... jokes aside, the movie is quite ... out there to describe it mildly ... I have a heart for low budget efforts so I reckon I rated it a bit higher than I had to. Effects are ok, if you consider the budget ... nothing more ... or nothing much more. Story is quite ... weird.