This doesn't quite manage to be either a gritty musical or a convincing thriller, although the atmosphere is well-captured.
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11/06/09
1 Day
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:8
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.4/10
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A well-intentioned misfire.
11/06/09
You could call this a 'hip-hopera', a mix of filmmaking and social work, or a shot in the arm for British independent cinema. Just don't call it Bugsy Malone with real bullets.
11/06/09
It’s propulsive stuff that credibly mixes social realism with bursts of musical energy. Just occasionally, though, the movie falls for the gangland glamour — loving shots of guns, cars and posturing bad boys — it claims to despise.
11/06/09
By turns gloomy, frenzied, downbeat and violently melodramatic, Penny Woolcock's gang grime musical throbs intermittently with energy.
11/06/09
Woolcock doesn’t strictly glamourise this guns-'n'-babymothers lifestyle, but her shortcuts to gritty pathos are nearly as questionable.
11/06/09
Woolcock has overcome all odds to produce one of the best British flicks since This Is England.
11/06/09
Undoubtedly well acted and shot, and with a rip-roaring hip-hop score, it’s impressively non-moralistic, just showing us how it is. That may be why Birmingham’s cinemas have refused to show it.
11/06/09
The film has a cheeky comic streak that offsets all the streetwise grandstanding.
11/06/09
Woolcock deserves praise for ambition, but this tumbles awkwardly into some netherworld between streetwise musical and social-conscience crime chronicle.
11/06/09
This moral-less film is thoroughly depressing. Don't give it the time of day, blood.
11/06/09
A gangsta farrago, convincing neither as street-tough crime drama nor soul-motorised rap show. The performers go through the motions, and emotions, as if reading cue cards.
11/06/09
The street patois is at times incomprehensible, the plot is a joke and the music is absurdly aggressive.
11/06/09
1 Day is something of a mixed bag but it's ultimately worth seeing for the energy and commitment of its fired-up cast of unknowns.
11/06/09
The performances are quality and the rapping, written and performed by the cast, is SUPERB - if anything, the film could have done with a lot more of it.
11/06/09
It's a noble endeavour, but not a particularly successful one, primarily because her cast, as authentic as they are, don't really have the dramatic skills.
11/06/09
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