44 Inch Chest
44 Inch Chest
R | 08 October 2009 (USA)
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Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.

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Scanialara

You won't be disappointed!

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SnoReptilePlenty

Memorable, crazy movie

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AshUnow

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Quiet Muffin

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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eddie052010

What is the worst film ever made? That's a though question, seeing as how film is a very popular art form, as is highlighted by the amount of films there in, both in the past and present. Many of them are masterpieces, while many others are total garbage that no-one should ever see. With so many bad films out there, it can be quite hard to fully determine an answer to that question. However, while many films are rubbish and entertaining, others are just flat out rubbish and boring. This leads many to another complex question: what is the dullest film ever made? Sure, while there are many bad films out there, most of them aren't dull, and even some good movies can be accused of being dull, so it is also a hard question to answer. However, I think that this film is the answer to that question. 44 Inch Chest, a barely-seen low budget British gangster film form 2010, is (in my opinion at least) while not the worst film ever made, it is surely the absolute dullest.Firstly, let's discuss the plot. Colin, a Cockney gangster gets heartbroken after his wife leaves him in favour of another man. In retaliation, his gangster friends kidnap the guy and take him to Colin, as he decides what to do with him, whether that would be forgiving him or killing him. That's the entire plot of the movie. While I don't mind a film having a simple plot, the plot here is very simple to the point of non-existence and the film's achingly slow pace don't help matters, especially with the filler they put in to pad out the length, which is mainly highlighted when Colin's friends discuss another film (Samson and Delilah by Cecil B Demille) in parallel to the situation taking place as well as bringing back the wife character during the film who does barely anything to advance the plot.I said earlier that the film was the dullest film ever. The main reason for that is it's slow pace, and that for the whole running time, nothing seems to happen in the film. There is barely any character development, many of the events in the story seem inconsequential and the film stops rather than ends, meaning that we never know what happened to the main character and whether his actions throughout the film have made him a better person or if he is as still as psychotic as he was before.It doesn't help matters that Colin is very unlikeable. Now, I understand that his character was cheated on, which is something I can sympathize with. What I don't sympathize with however is that Colin is a raving lunatic who brutally attacks his wife for infidelity (even going as far as to chuck her out of the window of their house) and due to his weird outbursts throughout the film, clearly seems to have some sort of psychotic disorder and is very unpredictable, which implies that he has acted similarly to his wife previously, which gives her more than enough justification for cheating on him. None of the other characters are much better. I know this film has an ensemble cast of Britain's best actors, and I should be mad that the film would waste a cast like this, but to be honest there are so many other problems with this heap of manure that the waste of these actors is the least of it's problems. It doesn't help that many of them are given nothing to do, as Tom Wilkinson, Ian Mcshane and Joanne Whalley give good performances despite having nothing to work with. The worst offender surprisingly is John Hurt, as his character is really annoying and the fact that he swears a lot doesn't help.That's another thing that's wrong with this trash, the excessive cussing. I'm not a prude, but the amount of f and c bombs is embarrassing, as they do it very often and it goes really extreme at some points, and it has the mentality of a young kid swearing in order to impress the big boys. I'm sorry, saying the c word for the 20th time won't stop your audience from passing out into a coma. Seriously, this script feels like it was written by 12 year olds who loved Reservoir Dogs and wanted to make a Kubrick version of it.Yes that is what this movie is setting out to do: make Reservoir Dogs if made by Kubrick. Despite how awful that already sounds, the result is far worse, as unlike Reservoir Dogs, there is no tension, laughs or fun due to the achingly slow pace and how the "revenge" part of the plot doesn't begin until an hour in. There is also no revenge in the film, as Colin doesn't do anything to the man who slept with his wife, despite the fact that she was beaten up pretty badly for infidelity. Sure it succeeds in very Kubrickian and there is great cinematography but that also means a slow pace which kills any sort of excitement that you might have. There are honestly many pointless parts here, and you can skip them without missing any plot, especially the Samson and Delilah footage, which does make me think that I could be watching that instead of this garbage. Overall, this is just dull rubbish. The pace is achingly slow, the characters are uninteresting, and there is no resolution to the weak plot that is padded out to get to 90 minutes. The fact that such a great cast is wasted is the least of it's crimes. Stay far far away from this. This is by far the dullest film ever made, and not in a good way.

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sergepesic

It's so simple, but just fantastic. Dump of a warehouse, cheated husband,5 faithful friends( thugs or thugs wannabe's), and funny, brilliantly profane, smart script and actors to die for.If you are easily offended with cussing( and I never understood the nation appalled with word f..k, and in the same time in exaltation with violence in their favorite sports and news), just miss this movie. It just isn't for you and your ilk. This is a treatise on machismo and marriage and friendship, and it shows why man are the weaker sex. After all the bluster and violence, what stays is bottomless sadness. This is not "Sexy Beast", it is much better and deeper. Just fantastic...It just proves my point that I've been informed that my review contains a prohibited word. If I owned 20 guns and rifles, nobody would care. But a word that describes a common sexual practice scares everybody.

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ozmonster-57-81583

I did not enjoy this film in the slightest. I was expecting a little bit of action and or violence, and got none. What I did get is a bunch of old men sitting around a warehouse for an hour and a half trying to talk hard and failing. They swear constantly and try to talk like scary London criminals, but it's just embarrassing. There are no redeeming events in the plot and all in all this is just a bad film. The ending is a complete anti-climax, where nothing really happens. I expected better from the likes of Ray Winstone and John Hurt.If you like listening to a bunch of old men swear, drink whiskey and try and talk dangerous, then watch this film. If you have better things to do then don't bother, especially if you're a Ray Winstone fan.

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Kaz PS

44 inch chest is basically reservoir dogs meets jacobs ladder. a man's wife confesses that she's met someone else and, in a rage, he calls in his team of thuggish friends to capture the "loverboy," so that he can interrogate, torture and eventually kill him. typical revenge fantasy stuff. except it's all exactly that. a fantasy. his friends, the "thugs" that populate the whole film, don't exist. rather, they're each a facet of his own personality, the tough bigot, the sensitive flamboyant hedonist, the down to earth pragmatist and the volatile gentleman. they goad, restrain, and goad again, painting an indelible picture of the turmoil Colin is experiencing in the wake of his wife's confession of infidelity. some of the best writing about relationships and marriage that I've ever seen. incredible characterization, of all of them but in particular Colin Diamond (Ray Winstone.) damn, dude. breaking up is hard to do.kudos to mellis, scinto and venville. great work.

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