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Joseph-Hockey
Reviews
44 Inch Chest (2009)
Not for me - I'm afraid
It is apparent that you will either love or loathe this film. Unfortunately I fall into the later category as I could not gleam any point to the story. In essence the principal character's relationship with his partner fails because of her sexual relationship with another. Because of his past and his associates he is able to exact a violent physical revenge on the new lover which is everyone's principal reaction, realising the futility of this action in restoring his relationship he does nothing. The lover for his part learns the effect his actions have caused. That's it, hardly educating. The main feature of the film is continuous swearing which although typical really adds nothing and becomes quite tedious after a few minutes. We are treated to a flashback of how one character won £40,600 last night, why? Any relevance to the plot? In reality of course these low life individuals would have beat the life out of the lover and felt quite good about it. Sorry I can't manage to intellectualise a boring tale punctuated by obscenities inter dispersed with shots of railway arches - highlight as they were! Or any of the occasional snippets of music which again seemed to bear no relevance. The 2 points were for the lighting and cinematography!