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  • 2010
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary How far would you go to avenge betrayal? Colin Diamond is about to find out in this gritty, provocative thriller. After he breaks down over the dissolution of his marriage, he kidnaps his wife’s lover, and his rage pushes him to the brink of murder as his motley crew of buddies urges him to exact brutal revenge. Ian McShane, John Hurt, T...

Directed By: Malcolm Venville

Written By: Louis Mellis, David Scinto

  • 2010
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m

44 Inch Chest

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
47
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary How far would you go to avenge betrayal? Colin Diamond is about to find out in this gritty, provocative thriller. After he breaks down over the dissolution of his marriage, he kidnaps his wife’s lover, and his rage pushes him to the brink of murder as his motley crew of buddies urges him to exact brutal revenge. Ian McShane, John Hurt, T...

Directed By: Malcolm Venville

Written By: Louis Mellis, David Scinto

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
47
22% Positive
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72% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
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75
What enriches the recipe is that no one is quite as cagey as they seem. Colin is officially thuggish, but he's a blinkered romantic. Archie is a mama's boy, Meredith is gay, Mal is impotent, and Peanut wears dentures.
By Joe Williams FULL REVIEW
63
The best reason to see 44 Inch Chest is simply to behold some of the finest actors working today, especially Winstone -- who can embody winsomeness and menace in one sweaty, unkempt glance -- and the woefully underemployed Dillane.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
50
It's an interesting spectacle, but not enough to carry a movie.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
50
It starts to feel less like a thriller than an actors’ workshop.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
50
Structurally, 44 Inch Chest resembles "Reservoir Dogs"; but, without the added amusement of Tarantino's skewing of narrative time, it feels very much more like a direct adaptation of a stage play (which apparently it's not). The filmmakers do goose things up by playing with reality in the second half, but it all leads to a payoff that, while perfectly legitimate, feels limp.
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40
The cast to die for is almost entirely wasted in this machismo-marinated slab of Brit-crime nastiness.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
25
There's a difference between exposing misogyny and crassly exploiting it.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Prescience Media, Omni Films, Twilight Production & Entertainment, IM Global, Anonymous Content, Passenger, Goldcrest Post Production London, Hindsight Media
Release Date Jan 15, 2010
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The Measure of Revenge
Website http://www.44inchchestfilm.com/
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Awards

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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