44 Inch Chest

44 Inch Chest (2009)

  • 41% of critics liked it
    (79 reviews)

  • 36% of users liked it
    (13,383 ratings)

Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, and Joanne Whalley star in first-time feature filmmaker Malcolm Venville's darkly comic tale of a man who rallies his friends in order to seek revenge against the French waiter who recently slept with his wife. Sexy Beast… More

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Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 29, 2010 Wide
Image Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    After a while you can see why the wayward wife moved on to fresher prospects. Our man Ray is all talk, no bloody action.

  • John Hartl, Seattle Times

    The frequently profane dialogue suggests David Mamet on an off-night (so does Malcolm Venville's claustrophobia-inducing direction), though the first-rate cast works hard.

  • Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

    It's an interesting spectacle, but not enough to carry a movie.

  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

    The whole thing feels like middle-period Mamet with English accents, and not much to say.

  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

    Is this a documentary about a porn professional? Or a gym rat? Neither. It's a stagy, half-entertaining, half-tedious acting competition between five excellent Englishmen.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Film C


    Fantastic cast, acted well by some of the greatest Actors of our time , A superb British cast and i found the language to be highly amusing and found John Hurt to be refreshing as i have never seen a character like that from him! That said i cant have any positive comment regarding… More

  • Mark W


    Remember the British gangster film "Sexy Beast" released in 2000? You know? The one where "Gandhi" goes ape shit? Well, this film brings some of the cast and crew back together again. Unfortunately, it seems that Ben Kingsley wasn't taking 'yes' for… More

  • Lady D


    44 Inch Chest may have tried to take top position for the biggest amount of profanity in a film, which I'm sure makes up probably half the dialogue, not that I'm opposed to language of any kind if it works for the film, but does get a bit silly. On one hand you have a bunch… More

  • Bruce B


    You Brits can make some dicked up movies. 1 Stars Whats even more dicked up is I spent 1 hour 34 minutes watching it

  • xGary X


    When an East End villain's wife leaves him for another man, he and his crew of old lags kidnap her new beau and leave him to stew in his own fear while they decide on the appropriate punishment. 44 Inch Chest is a rather unusual affair in that although its subject matter is that… More

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