To me, this movie is perfection.

Such a frustrating disappointment

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

DEAD CERT is nothing more than a British rip-off of the ultra-cool vampire flick FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, with the action shifted to London and a cast of mildly familiar faces from British TV rather than big name stars. The biggest, and unfortunately, crippling, problem that DEAD CERT faces is that it was made with a very low budget, meaning the whole thing looks cheap, and also amateurish in places.One-time hard-man Craig Fairbrass (DARKLANDS) plays a Cockney chap who's ploughed his life savings into opening a new club, only to have it taken over by Romanian gangsters who also happen to be vampires. Don't you just hate it when that happens? As in FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, the first half is a typical gangster film while the second is a vampire-heavy set-piece.Compare this to FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and you'll be disappointed, because it's nowhere near as good. The calibre of the script just isn't there and the special effects are entirely limited. Still, I went in expecting absolutely nothing, and as a result I found myself enjoying this. There are frequent funny moments, and it's great fun seeing all the familiar faces. The attempted additions to the vampire mythology are a hoot - apparently vampires are afraid of dogs and instead of using crucifixes, you only have to have something you have faith in. None of it makes much sense but it is fun.Chief vampire duties are handed out to EASTENDERS actor and one-time insurance advert man Billy Murray, who perhaps wisely doesn't bother attempting an accent here. There are brief cameos from the likes of Jason Flemyng and Danny Dyer, along with a larger slice of the action from laughable one-time Hollywood star Steven Berkoff, who really does seem to have fallen on hard times. Watch out for THIS IS ENGLAND's Perry Benson and 300's Andrew Tiernan in supporting roles, and a fairly meaty part from the impossible to dislike Dexter Fletcher. Interesting, most of the main stars seem to have doubled up as producers, alongside Martin Kemp, so there's a lot of enthusiasm here; it's just a shame it's not matched by quality.

I have not yet seen this movie but for somebody to say British accents are a problem is totally pathetic! If you are not British or do not understand Engish then yes you may have a problem! Us British make some of the best movies there are without necessarily needing a big Hollywood budget or name. We make them based on quality of acting and script etc and do not necessarily need special effects and big Hollywood names! This person who said this in his review should have it removed as he has no idea what he is talking about!Again I cannot comment at this stage on the movie but felt compelled to remark on a such a shallow idiot like this who needs an eduction it seems!

This movie wasn't entirely terrible but it certainly won't be embracing my DVD player for quite a while. It semi works as a gangster flick, in brief a rival gang tries to take over an established patch. This has worked in the past and could have possibly worked now. Considering the cast of British stars that appear in it, Craig Fairbrass, jason Flemyng and Dexter fletcher to name a few.But then... The vampire bit seems to pop up. It feels like they couldn't really pick a decent way for the movie to go and decided it would be a good idea to throw a couple of bloodsuckers in. The culminating scene near the end of the movie becoming like a poor mans from dusk till dawn.It falls slightly short of a gangster flick and slightly short of a horror flick it's one of those that I'm sure you will be on the fence about. The only real qualm i had with thee movie is billy murray's romanian character... Without a hint of a romanian accent Try the film by all means but don't get your hopes up to high.

I'm reposting this after some-one connected to the film tried to have it deleted. It breaks no IMDb rules. I will not be censored from expressing an honest opinion.This movie is absolutely terrible. It is a lazy cross between a cheap cockney criminal story and a very cheap vampire story. Imagine if From Dusk Till Dawn had been filmed in a weekend on a camera in Bermondsay..yes it really is that bad, Instead of International stars like George Clooney you have an ex soap actor who made a few low budget horror films years ago ( or two if you count Fairbrass) and Steven Berkoff, Berkoff was big in the 80s when the States liked to cast English actors as the bad guy in everything but we got wise. The Brits rate Berkoff for some reason but he plays every part exactly the same: strutting about and shouting like Hitler. Berkoff is down a long way from Beverley Hills Cop to be starring in crap like this.All of this could be forgiven if the action was even half decent. I've always heard that the English had the best stunt men in the world. Perhaps this was too cheap to have a proper stunt man because the action is like something out of a school play.Boring.I didn't pay to watch this and you shouldn't either.