Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

telemental I've read some bad reviews of '44 Inch Chest' but its a real work of art for these actors and writers. Yes it takes 'nerve' to hear bad words but for the love of art - if you can't stand the language, leave the theater.This is theater - on film. A disgusting look at the second original sin; adultery. Unless you're kinda young ..its a very common occurrence and we explore here pain involved in partnerships.I've watched it a few times examining every actors performance; truly remarkable and each deserved recommendation for their parts.If I could bleep out the 'bad word', I'd show it to my wife but even I have my own reservations but in reality - its no different from the bloody physical violence in grand master Quentin Tarantino films.This verbal intensity level 10 is required to be harshly received (by the adulterer). We're just along for the ride.Live long actors, thank you for your wonderful performances. Writers Louis Mellis & David Scinto, major thank you for your bold writing.

lor_ No, this is not the direct fault of Tarantino or Ritchie or any conspiracy. This exceedingly trite and uninteresting film is the result of the popularity in recent decades of what I often term "pseudo-hip" cinema, a condescending attitude toward his or her audience by a scriptwriter (as well as a director) who feels more perceptive than the average bloke. Or average filmmaker who came before them (in this case, see the British gangster films of the '50s by the likes of Lewis Gilbert or starring Richard Attenborough.Both Gilbert, more famous for his later Bond movies and quality feel-good items like "Educating Rita" and "Shirley Valentine", there will never be praise or film-buff adoration. No, it is the pranksters who catch the public's eye, but this followup to the unusual (and vastly overrated, natch) "Sexy Beast" has nothing to offer.It is basically a one-act play, suitable perhaps for acting class or some limited run at a hard-up local repertory theatre. There's an assortment of gangster cliché figures, hardly worth calling characters, and their victim, an adulterer.The subject of adultery is run into the ground here as if it were novel, timely or even remotely interesting. Ray Winstone, who I first admired way back in "Quadrophenia" and "Scum" (and even "That Summer") when an independent British Cinema (see: hit "Gregory's Girl") was making its name internationally, is stuck with a useless, unplayable role unworthy of his talents as the sob-story vegetable of a protagonist.His pals/comrades are written to let the talented actors chew the scenery, with the great John Hurt especially indulgent in delivering a retarded, foul-mouthed zero. Ian McShane fares the best, given literate soliloquies to recite and basically able to stay above the low-life fray as an egotistical homosexual gangster. I first became a fan of his in 1971 watching "Villain" at a local Cleveland drive-in theater and though that gangster film (part of an early '70s renaissance headed by Mike Hodges) was roundly knocked by the critics, its violent power impressed me, as did the journeyman director, like Hodges from Brit TV, Michael Tuchner.So Ritchie and his imitators sell tickets, and we will see this nonsensical rush to the bottom continue. These films are not entertaining nor enlightening -mere exercises in "Look ma, I'm swearing!" We probably have that jerk Brian DePalma and his "Scarface" to thank for that.

Neil Welch Colin's wife is leaving him (possibly because he is a loony thug), and Colin's friends persuade him to kidnap her lover and subject the fellow to various unpleasantnesses.Let me say that the cast in this film - Ray Winstone as Colin, also John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Ian McShane, Joanne Whalley, Stephen Dillane) are all first rate. If you want an object lesson in applied acting, watch this film.If not, then you may have problems. Because 44 Inch Chest is so relentlessly unpleasant, an entire film full of unpleasant people being deeply unpleasant all the time, that some people - and I'm one of them - may find it almost unwatchable.The victim is deliberately kept mute so that it is difficult to identify - and therefore sympathise - with him. Which means you are left with 5 unpleasant men acting their socks off.This was not to my taste at all.

Luke L. Bolton Im sorry to say it, but I hated this movie. I suppose the actors tried and put on o.k. performances, but the story line was stupid, the dialogue was annoying, the whole movie was just annoying to watch.If I had of known better I would not have payed a quarter (25 cents) to watch this movie. Story: alright, some young guy slept with an old English dude's wife, so old English dude gos all psycho , gets a bunch of his semi loser friends together and they kidnap young guy that slept with old dude's wife. Then they sit around talking all this B.S. dialogue...And you get to listen to old dude rant and whine about how young guy slept with his wife and ruined his whole life. Hello! REALLY! Get over it old dude, its the year 2011 (or 2009 when movie came out , i think), people sleep with each other all the time and the world doesn't end. Also I just really don't care that young guy slept with old dude's wife, far less wish to see a whole movie based upon this fact.And to be fair, I suppose the camera work and some of the acting and dialogue was o.k. but this doesn't change the fact that the story,majority of dialogue and the character's were boring and annoying. If you want a good thriller or drama please look else where. I dislike this movie so much, I can't even be bothered to edit my review of it properly.