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.
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.