In a Heartbeat (2014) User Reviews

Good...if you like films where nothing happens

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 21 August 2015]

BLOODSHOT is an intense, would-be psychological thriller along the lines of the FATAL ATTRACTIONs of old. It's a low budget British romp, set and filmed in London, and it features a maverick special effects technician (played in his customary style by Danny Dyer) who rescues a confused young woman on the street and takes her back to his place. She ends up living with him, and a blossoming romance develops between the pair...

Much of BLOODSHOT consists of scenes which go nowhere only to develop the slowest-moving narrative either. There are lots of horror elements in the script, from Dyer's ultra-gory work as a SFX guy to some absolutely ludicrous nightmare sequences that look like they belong in a cheap Jess Franco movie, but in terms of actual plotting and incident little happens. The scriptwriter is content to keep you guessing, building up to what I hoped would be a huge pay-off at the climax.

Except that pay-off never happens; the story just fizzles away, leaving this a film as a whole where nothing happens. It's almost entirely without merit; the technical values are reasonable, but the acting is pretty diabolical. Dyer is his usual self but it's Zoe Grisedale who comes off the worst, looking completely out of her depth in such a demanding role. A couple of British film regulars appear here and there (Craig Conway and Keith Allen) but they add little to what is in essence a non-starter of a film.

Yep, it's Tripe. Sorry Danny

[Irhorwood · 3/10 · 2 September 2021]

I love Danny Dyer and gave it half an hour trying to ignore the female leads terrible acting, expecting something to happen, but I gave up when it looked like more of the same was on the way. Should have known better after five excruciating minutes at the start watching her dribble about under a duvet in the park.

Sorry Danny, even you can't save this one.

makes no actual sense

[chazwalsh2003 · 3/10 · 7 January 2015]

As much as I love danny dyer ,I never had him pegged for a romantic type , that's all he is in this movie . At first I thought he was a murderer and judging by the cover of the DVD that's also what it implied.

Sadly the film didn't really make any sort of sense at all, with the scene where she was a demon slashing him up ,along with the flashback of her again towards the end what has that got to do with anything. The ending was extremely poor a shot focused on her eyes ..again pointless.

Some of the story tied together ,other parts didn't . It would have been more believable as a romantic drama .. Because that was far from a horror ...

I strongly disagree with a sequel if one is considered.. But people can watch at their own risk.

Waste of time! 1/10

[leonblackwood · 1/10 · 3 January 2015]

Review: What a load of rubbish! Right from the beginning, when Dyer meets the girl in the woods, I thought the plot was strange because she was acting really weird but he still took her back to his place. From there, the girl keeps on doing strange things but he still puts up with her rubbish, no matter how odd her sketchy past sounds. The acting was pretty poor and the storyline was completely ridiculous. The poster and the title, Bloodshot, is very misleading because the whole film is based around the relationship between Dyer and this strange girl. When. The plot unfolds, the film just seems like a waste of time and it wasn't that well thought through by the director. Disappointing!

Round-Up: Although Danny Dyer does show some emotion in this movie, it doesn't save this badly made, pointless film which had no way to go right from the beginning. I was hoping for a major twist which would have made the film slightly interesting, but it's very one toned and pretty boring. I don't know why the director chose to make Dyer sound gay and the Drew Barrymore looking female character seemed to over act all the way through the film. Anyway, this just has to be yet another bad day at the office for Dyer, but at least he has Eastenders to fall back on.

I recommend this movie to people who are into their strange dramas about a man who helps a woman whilst jogging in the park and ends up falling in love with her, even though she has a sketchy past. 1/10

A calamitous mess from start to finish

[robert_ · 1/10 · 10 April 2021]

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. An abysmal script, nonsensical story and woeful acting make this unutterably boring film unwatchable. The American doctor is particularly awful and the angry drunk scene has to be seen to be believed. There are movies that are so bad, they're good, but this is not one of them. Sure, it's terrible, but it's so, so, so boring that I simply can't rate it higher than one star. A calamitous mess from start to finish and I have nothing positive to say about it whatsoever.

Well that's 2 hours of my life I'm not getting back

[keirondennie · 1/10 · 17 April 2018]

You know you're scraping the very depths of the Amazon Prime barrel if you subject yourself to nearly 2 hours of this drivel.

I have seen worse acting, but only in films starring Ryan Gosling.

The direction feels like it was done by a 2nd year film student who scammed a $50k budget from some demented Auntie & borrowed the Uni's equipment to bang it all together over a long weekend...& yet he's been making stuff since the 70's!!!

Truly, God awfully terrible.

Trust me....don't do it...I've suffered enough for all of us.

Dyer your the man but this is poor

[epiceffectss · 1/10 · 20 January 2015]

Let me start by saying Danny Dyer is one the UKs best action actors , he's up there with your Statham , with your Vinnie Jones , with your Guy Richie. But this film is awful. Thank god he got the Eastenders role, Danny you need to hold onto that my son. The plot of this film is so bad , acting wasn't good either from any of the other main actors. Danny boy plays a romantic wet love interest to a mad woman. Wasn't feeling this film at all , no bad boy Dyer action either , none of his usual bad man attitude which Danny can usually portray so well . For Danny it's easy to do the whole badman thing because its not acting , for him it's real life , it's who he is , it's the air that he breathes. He breathes in oxygen but he exhales badman. Lets hope that DD comes out with some new material soon as this film just doesn't do him justice , he is a legend , an unsung hero of the UK and he could still break Hollywood. We saw Statham do it , we saw Christian Bale do it , seriously isn't it about we send him nuclear and get him to kick some USA butt ? Come on Danny your the reason I watched this film , your the reason I left school aged 14 , your the reason my girlfriend left me ... Make my year D and goto Hollywood and follow your dreams bro.

A REAL 100% TIME WASTER.

[erica-taylor-1 · 27 May 2018]

What an awful waste of time. Second rate acting from all concerned and the plot, if you can call it that, made no sense whatsoever. It appeared to me that the actors, if you can call them that, were ad-libbing their lines or making it up as they went along. Give this a definite miss. It is a bucket full of tripe.

Christ!

[cbm967 · 2/10 · 4 May 2018]

Worst Danny Dyer file bar none. The female lead cannot act. Godawful file. Stick to gangster films and Eastenders Danny boy.

Do not watch

[arlenemcgaw · 1/10 · 14 June 2021]

Absolute rubbish, nonsensical, terrible script and mostly awful acting.

Pretty poor film

[iancrisp-41117 · 1/10 · 19 April 2021]

I normally love Danny Dyer in the movies but this is just garbage.

Give it a chance.

[walksey · 5/10 · 27 July 2021]

I liked it, not the usual geezer role for dyer.

Love it.

Utter rubbish

[elaineh-09286 · 1/10 · 13 August 2021]

Terrible story if you can call it that, nothing gelled, pointless from start to finish and what the hell was that nightmare scene about? One of the worst films I've ever watched.

What the actual ..... possibly the worst film I've ever seen!

[gsethi-1 · 1/10 · 14 December 2020]

From start to finish it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. In one of the scenes Dyer and his mates are watching a horror film where there it would appear that a woman is being abused by a man but you don't actually see anything, Dyer says to his mates "This movie is crap, why are you watching this rubbish" and at this scene I thought, Ah ok it's meant to e satirical. Nope just a terrible director, script writer and when I tell you that Dyer was by far he best actor, I need say no more about that apart from the female lead Zoe Griesdale was appalling! It starts of with her acting scared and for some reason speaking in French then what sounds like garbled German with cockney English thrown in which is in fact how she speaks for the rest of the film and neither of them ever refer back to why the hell she was acing sooo mad. Finally we meet her abusive husband in the stupidest scene ever made who later in the film is at an airport which we are told by Griesdale is London Heathrow but in a later scene we see her being dropped to London City Airport, why make this sort of stupid scene, film making at it's worst!! Anyway, if you want to have a laugh and see how not to do it, try and give it ago with the warning that you will cringe so hard it'll hurt!