Samantha Hamilton Bad Day is a well made micro budget movie; it's a 'Girl Power' movie at its best as the women take control. This thriller has a twisted plot that takes you on a fast paced journey, at the same time as it high lights some of the real issues effecting London's streets today.Claire Goose plays Rebecca Ryan an under cover cop and doting Mother to her 13 year old daughter Lynn. When her daughter is brutally murdered she turns and begins killing everyone involved in the mob she believes killed her daughter. It is down to Darius Cruise played by the wonderful Anthony Ofoegbu and hot-tempered partner Abby Barrett played surprising well by Donna Air to bring her home before the situation gets worst.I must say I was very surprised by all the performances in this movie, not your Danny Dyer, cockney shoot them up but a thoughtful, moving, thrilling, well directed, well lit, well written little movie. Claire Goose smashes it as the death wish main character killing everyone that gets in her way and the last scene at the end had me in tears.Anthony Ofoegbu is amazing as the seen it done it cop who has had enough of his job in fact Ofoegbu and Air both deliver extraordinary performances.The most striking aspect about both characters is the chemistry between them. Sometimes, we see that Cruise (Ofoegbu) likes Barrett (Air) but more or less seems to put up with her attitude, Ofoegbu is by far the best of both actors but Air is not far behind with her boiling and impatient approach to the experience Cruise. But saying this it is Claire Goose that steels the show with her outstanding mother gone mad performance, you really do feel for her and that is down to the actress.Ian David Diaz builds a script that never weakens itself during the full 90 minutes that the film lasts. This film is full of surprises and the plot twist at the end leads and reaches its astounding climax, a stand off between Goose & Air, one a mother in pain the other a mother to be.Bad Day is not perfect but it stands as one of the best micro budget UK movies I've seen this year, and I for one am glad I've got it in my DVD collection. I am going to give it 9 out of 10.

davidarnold1935 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!

jasonallan0072003 Bad Day may be the single best UK low budget movie ever made, and quite fittingly it is by one of the most creative directors of the independent film world, Ian David Diaz. Don't know who he is? Just buy or rent out The Killing Zone a movie that was wrongfully denied of any attention from the British film industry but praised by Harry Knowles from Ain't it cool.This movie is really entertaining from beginning to end, the dialog is surprisingly hilarious for this type of film, and I think that's what has made it so unique. The film does not even reach a tenth the degree of violent represented by the average Tarantino film, and it relies, instead, on amazing performances, flawless direction, a great soundtrack and edgy, tense camera-work. I'm from the states and I order this movie on line because my DVD player can handle the European system DVDs. The film starts with a brutal murder by two black dudes, one being Dominic Debias and the other being Marlon Sage Kerr, who kick-start the film with unbridled meanness'. This scene is then followed by the heroine of the movie Rebecca Ryan played by the brilliant Claire Goose. From here on in you have entered a world of the cop movie (but it's set in England) with all the trappings, the no nonsense black boss (Robbie Gee), the good looking rookie cop played by the sexy Donna Air and the worn-out experience cop Darius Cruise played with excellence by Anthony Ofoegbu.The editing by Diaz is slick and even though it was all shot hand held the quick-cuts, close-up camera shots and the variety Bad Day has is not just held within inside its narrative, but within its technical side too. Then you have the brooding use of music composed by Dominic Glynn painting the film with a dark level of ill feeling. The set-pieces are also well crafted, the chase, the fight in the junk yard between Claire Goose and Donna Air, the shoot out in the restaurant and the climax in the church which was performed with such power by Claire Goose and Donna Air.For me Donna Air was the brake through performance of this movie her entire body: running, screaming, fighting, running some more: the being and thinking blond thing was part of her character, and my God she did an outstanding job! This is not to say that the rest of the cast didn't do as well because they did. Bad Day is, quite simply, a hard-boiled, cop movie masterpiece and definitely deserves a watch if you haven't seen it.

refdan This film is one of many so called "gritty British crime films" extant these days. Mixed in is a theme of revenge with pretty females added to the mix for obvious reasons. It appears that the writer had a germ of an idea that somehow got distorted in the process of realization.Generally, revenge films are interesting if the wronged person is victimized by hateful acts and the perpetrators are known to be killers or worse. In this case, the victim sees the result, but doesn't know who did it or why. The plot develops as the victim proceeds to wreak havoc on anyone and everyone she knows before she can ascertain who really did it and why.Several inconsistent scenes play out: gun fights where more people get killed than there are shots fired. A seasoned police officer approaches a known killer and fails to disarm her before getting plugged. Police are portrayed as either corrupt or stupid. Criminals are shown as arrogant and stupid. These clichés in an otherwise good film make one's eyes roll.If you expect to see an intelligent, though-provoking film, this one is not for you. It appears to me that the actions of the protagonists are created just for shock value, not to show how a rational person might deal these circumstances.