44 Inch Chest

A simple film about a successful car salesman (Winstone) and his friends (Hurt, McShane, Wilkinson and Dillane) kidnapping his wife's lover (Poupaud) in an attempt to teach the lover a lesson, get revenge on the cheating wife (Whalley) and to repair the broken-hearted husband's shattered ego. Driven by strong dialogue and momentous presence from all six characters. But the wonderful mood of intensity doesn't really seem to move forward, it just kind of lingers. Emotional outbursts and other theatrical expressions are convincing, being that they're delivered from a talented ensemble cast, but it becomes a bit redundant when it happens more than once and takes the story nowhere. If you want a similarly strong cast in the same type of movie, but executed more successfully, try Sexy Beast.