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44 Inch Chest (2009)
so, so, so disappointed...
Like a lot of people who were eagerly anticipating this film, I too am a big fan of Sexy Beast. Ian McShane was quoted prior to the release of 44 Inch Chest as saying this new film makes Sexy Beast look like Mary Poppins - well it does - it highlights how great Sexy Beast is and how poor and pointless 44 Inch Chest is. Of course McShane was talking about the strong language used in '44' which grows ever so tiresome after the first five minutes. That's the first problem with the film - too much swearing. I find colourful language funny and entertaining but when every character is spouting it out constantly the words lose their impact and meaning and it feels like the writers just added most of the expletives for the sake of it. The highlight for me was not the actual film but the offended couple who walked out of the cinema only half an hour in! I could've followed them to be fair because at this point the plot had not progressed at all. I knew there was still an hour to go and had confidence something would happen - it doesn't. Sexy Beast went from A(the villa) to B(Logan's arrival) to C/D/E/F/G(Logan's mood swings!) to H(London for the job) to I(back to the villa again). '44' stays at A all the time with the slightest hints we might scrape to B but it doesn't ever happen. I did start thinking a possible twist was coming late on which may have redeemed the film somewhat but the hope came in vain. The acting was faultless as you'd expect from a cast of this calibre - it's the non-existent plot which obviously takes the film nowhere and creates a wasted cinematic experience. I left the cinema so, so, so disappointed.