"Dead in a Heartbeat" - Brief But Apparent Spoiler
"Dead in a Heartbeat" is a great example of a horrible made-for-TV-thriller. It's got the fundamentals: Weak dialogue, one-dimensional characters, action, explosions, action, explosions, bad dialogue, and the wrap-up ending with one more unannounced explosion.
Judge Reinhold plays a cop dead on the heels of a killer who is killing off all the patients of a certain doctor (who does, of course, become a love interest later on in the film--like we didn't see it coming). Reinhold blows stuff up, and stuff blows up around Reinhold for some apparent reason. I'm still sitting in awe wondering what all the explosions were for. Literally, someone is walking through a grocery store, and suddenly the produce aisle blows up. Well, not really, but it's kinda like that in "Dead in a Heartbeat."
The dialogue is stiff, unmoving, and totally contrived. Really, what has the world come to when we get what we expect out of a TV thriller.
"Dead in a Heartbeat" is just like all those other made-for-TV thrillers out there that claim to be thrillers but are nothing more than watered down, two-hour-with-commercials presentations made to keep ratings up. Really, TBS, did you need this one on your resume? It's almost as forgettable as your so-called thriller "The Triangle" and "Invincible." I think it's time to look into the future and see what your channel's best at: offering mainstream movies, not TV movies.
1/5 stars -
John Ulmer
"Dead in a Heartbeat" is a great example of a horrible made-for-TV-thriller. It's got the fundamentals: Weak dialogue, one-dimensional characters, action, explosions, action, explosions, bad dialogue, and the wrap-up ending with one more unannounced explosion.
Judge Reinhold plays a cop dead on the heels of a killer who is killing off all the patients of a certain doctor (who does, of course, become a love interest later on in the film--like we didn't see it coming). Reinhold blows stuff up, and stuff blows up around Reinhold for some apparent reason. I'm still sitting in awe wondering what all the explosions were for. Literally, someone is walking through a grocery store, and suddenly the produce aisle blows up. Well, not really, but it's kinda like that in "Dead in a Heartbeat."
The dialogue is stiff, unmoving, and totally contrived. Really, what has the world come to when we get what we expect out of a TV thriller.
"Dead in a Heartbeat" is just like all those other made-for-TV thrillers out there that claim to be thrillers but are nothing more than watered down, two-hour-with-commercials presentations made to keep ratings up. Really, TBS, did you need this one on your resume? It's almost as forgettable as your so-called thriller "The Triangle" and "Invincible." I think it's time to look into the future and see what your channel's best at: offering mainstream movies, not TV movies.
1/5 stars -
John Ulmer