Bad Day for the Cut

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Bad Day for the Cut

Released Oct 20, 2017

1h 39m

Mystery & Thriller

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A mild-mannered farmer embarks on a bloody quest to avenge his mother's murder. He soon discovers her dark past while wading through the criminal underworld of Belfast, Ireland.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

A taut vengeance thriller that doesn't completely come together as one would hope but has enough solid entertainment value, well-directed visuals, and nasty twists and turns to justify a look.

Jan 26, 2017

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Manages to develop its own distinct flavor while fitting snugly into the general tradition of latter-day U.K. gangster pics, with their rueful humor, colorful characters and realistically nasty violence.

Jan 25, 2017

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Brent McKnight

The Last Thing I See

The plot takes this scruffy everyman through unexpected twists and turns, revealing harsh truths in a smart, fun saga of violent retribution.

Rated: B+

Jul 1, 2020

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

It's hard to ruin a good revenge film, but the real problem is that Bad Day for the Cut is just nothing special.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 20, 2018

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Hammer to Nail

Bad Day for the Cut delivers its cinematic goods thanks to a smart combination of wit and violence, briskly delivered over just under 100 minutes.

Feb 25, 2018

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Sean Axmaker

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This lean, violent thriller from the UK has a dark undercurrent of humor to the story of an otherwise mild-mannered farmer and weekend hunter who turns out to be surprisingly resourceful...

Feb 4, 2018

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Jonathan M

Fun, violent. Dark and quirky like most Irish movies.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/13/25

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Audience Member

An excellent 'revenge' movie that bottles it at the end. I suspect this was intended to provide a high-brow type of ending where it is up to us to finish the movie in our heads. Well, the truth is, we prefer the film to wrap things up a bit better - otherwise there's so many loose ends. I think with an extra 10-20 seconds we could have had a resolution that avenged Bartosz as well and allowed his sister to escape the horror of it all. Stop trying to be 'arty' and tell COMPLETE story - start, middle, end.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/13/25

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Gareth v

A well constructed revenge movie that by the end has a man discovering more about himself than the events leading up to his actions.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/22/23

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Glenn C

Superb slow burning vengeance thriller, with a great mystery/thriller behind it. Yes, you have to suspend disbelief a little, but it allows a superb tension which is added to by the unlikelihood of the main protagonist in his role.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/29/23

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Audience Member

this was good - as bad as this sounds, i wished it was a little less PG when it came to the violence; seemed like every time a fight broke out the camera was always focused somewhere else. it's a revenge film - hard to feel like justice was served when you don't actually see anything happen.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Right from the start I wanted to see what would happen next. It was the cinematic version of a page-turner. And what came next, then next, then next… did not disappoint. The urge for vengeance and the immediate satisfaction of it become overpowered by the relentlessness and senselessness of revenge. A powerful message embedded in an entertaining film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Synopsis

A mild-mannered farmer embarks on a bloody quest to avenge his mother's murder. He soon discovers her dark past while wading through the criminal underworld of Belfast, Ireland.

Director: Chris Baugh
Producer: Katy Jackson, Brendan Mullin
Screenwriter: Chris Baugh, Brendan Mullin
Distributor: Well Go USA
Production Co: Six Mile Hill Productions
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 20, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 20, 2017
Runtime: 1h 39m

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