YouHeart
I gave it a 7.5 out of 10
Griff Lees
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Patience Watson
One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
GL84
Tired of hustling on the street, a group of street punks decide to rob a bank, but after getting caught and forced to hide out inside they notice a gang of ravenous zombies attempting to break in and try to hold off the creatures enough to escape.This one had a few good points to it. The main thing with this one is that there's a really nice back-story for the creatures, which makes for some really good times here as, while the medical experiment thread has been done before, this time it actually works for the film. Best of all is that the proposed experiment would actually do some good to humanity rather than just being simply a reason to unleash the zombie hordes, and when it all gets explained, the changes made to them make the creatures a lot better than average zombies. These changes, getting away from the head-shot kill and by forcing them to come out only at night, are pretty great and by incorporating them into the film, make the film really fun. The zombies also have another big plus in the film by generating some big action scenes in here, from the first encounter where they overrun the police force outside in a swarm of bites, ambushes and bodies being ripped apart to the attacks inside the bank that were one-on-one off in the solitary rooms all the way to the full-on assault at the end, there's a lot of fun action in this one. That ending assault is the big highlight action scene here, as it's where they all start shooting up the zombies in a flurry of gunfire, impaling, blood-spraying and much more as it's so long that it eventually just becomes better the longer it goes on, and with some nice bloodshed done as well, it's enough to make it enjoyable. Along with the really creepy, impressive opening, these make this one relatively fun though this one here does have a few rather big flaws to it. For as much good as they do here, the zombies are responsible for two of the biggest ones. The bigger of the two is that, since there's so much time spent on the bank-robbery set-up, they hardly get any real time on-screen besides the opening attack and the fight at the end. They're absent from most of the movie as it forces the film into long stretches of inactivity which are hardly interesting as the film focuses on their struggles for too much instead of the zombie action, and in a zombie movie, that's never a real good sign. The other factor is that they're of the running zombie variety which makes them inferior to the other zombie variety since there's nothing about them similar to the classic zombie model of these creatures snarling and running around at quick speeds. Rather than being scarier, all they do is irritate when something should've been done about it. Aside from these, the next biggest problem some will have with it will be the rather bland dialog in here, since nearly everything in here is cursing of some sort, even in situations that don't call for it, and it's hard to really get into the explanations for everything when they're cursing at every turn. These here are the film's problems.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and a mild sex scene.
Claudio Carvalho
In Miami, four smalltime thieves leaded by Ski (Brandon Hardin) decide to rob a bank in the small town of Maysville. The lord Hustle (E-40) demands a 10% commission and sends his experienced bodyguard Ackson (D.J. Naylor) to help the gang in their plan. He goes to the target bank to check the security system, but Ski decides to anticipate the plan for that afternoon. They succeed in the heist, but Deputy Kate (T-Love) activates the alarm and one of the criminals shoots Deputy Duff. When the bank is under siege of the police force, they are attacked by weird creatures. The former government agent Hunter (Big Daddy Kane) comes to the bank and tells that the vampire zombies had been contaminated by an experimental virus developed by the government through the subjects that have escaped from the laboratory, attacking people in the New Moon to feed themselves. The group joins force to survive to the massive attack of the creatures.The trash and gore "Dead Heist" is watchable without anything special. The story about a deadly heist in a wrong night is not original and should be better developed; the acting is flat, and the dialogs do not help the cast; and the special effects are only reasonable. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Noite Infernal" ("Hell Night")
escobar0813
Four small time gangsters go to pull off a bank job in a small town out in the sticks that turns into over the top video game type killing of flesh eating zombies. Video game type movies can get away with bare bones no real story line plots like this. Just look at the previews for Resident Evil: Extinction. It's not like they need to write a story for the movie. All they need to do is figure out places for zombies to get slaughtered.D.J. Naylor wasn't good or bad. He was just kind of there trying too hard to be Vin Diesel. E-40 only being shown in the movie on a cameo type role stole the whole movie. Been nice to have him as one of the gangsters fighting the flesh eating zombies. Big Daddy Kane was like a plastic man out there on some parts, then got down on other. The action scenes he looked on his game. When he had to explain the flesh eating zombie story to D.J. Naylor it was painful. Two mellow characters on screen don't work. The rest of the actors didn't stand out either way.The picture was clean. Director Bo Webb did a hell of a good job on calling the shots. The cuts he used to show money, guns, zombie faces, and blood was off the hook. All the time you see one big shot of all the actors like you're outside looking in. In this movie Director Bo Webb brought you in to the movie full on. The camera showed all kinds of detail.DEAD HEIST was right on the money trying to roll a urban movie into a horror movie. It's been done in other movies put out by bigger studios like Tales from the Hood and Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood. The different thing on this movie was it wasn't preachy or silly. It just wasn't pulled off. Good plan. Poor execution. Check it out to see E-40 and what Director Bo Webb did. Both got more movies in the future.
theopryde
There are two kinds of b movies out there, the ones that are jammed together in the most cynical fashion to wrench out a few bucks and nothing more. then there's movies like 'Dead Heist' where you can just tell that people with little to no budget got together for love of making movies and had a great time in the process. The dialogue is foul and quite hilarious for it, and while the plot is meager at best, there is something infectious (truly no pun intended) about the way everyone involved gives it their all. The small town locations are put to good use, and the violence is never anything but comic book bloody. This movie is nothing but fun and that is all it was ever meant to be. By the way, Zach Hanner rocks.
