The Heavy

This is one of those movies you really hope will be good and with a reasonable cast, should have been, i was looking forward to watching it but with a newborn son, struggled to find the time.. when i did find the time it was wasted on one of the worst films i have seen for a while (and i have seen Dear John). I thought that maybe this was one of those movies that might have had a great original script that was then bastardized by rewrites and a different directorial view, but then noticed it was written and directed by the same guy Marcus Warren, so assume he must have been happy with it, Gary Stretch who was promising in Dead Man Shoes, never seemed to go anywhere with his character who seemed to have the morals of a saint one minute and Bill Sykes the next. I have enjoyed some of the Vinnie Jones movies i have seen but always felt that he was being carried by the other cast members.. in this, he does the carrying and did what he could with the terrible dialogue, i should have known as soon as i saw idiot boy Lee Ryan in this sorry excuse of a film, maybe he is a friend of Marcus Warren who must have great friends to get this dross made in the first place!

Sometimes I like to check out the rating of a movie that I like...and I like this movie. I like the main character/actor in this...thug with heart. As for vinnie jones, of course hes a good actor...but I never even remember that he's in this when I think of watching this movie...and I've watched it a few times, and Im watching it now over a heineken. Good ending, the music fits. I like it. To sum it up, I recently watched 'the package' with dolf and steve austin...now that was a souless boring movie that I could barely pay attention to, and I like those actors. This movie has heart...and Im guessing cost a lot less to make.

STOP casting Vincent Jones as a violent intimidating "gangster" in films. He has become an absolute caricature of himself. It's now beyond a joke.

With a new TV for Christmas and having viewed most of the new titles out there, I was looking for something new and visually pleasing with some potential action to spice it up. After reading terrible reviews almost across the board for this movie, I came across one review that said it was a good action movie to just sit back and enjoy and that the story wasn't terrible...the reviewer must have been thinking of another movie. I was looking forward to at least some quality acting based on the cast, but it was one corny line and terrible camera angle after the other. The action was extremely limited which made the long stretches of poor story and character development even more unbearable. When the action did show up, it was quick and made even worse by the cheesy matrix style(camera following slow motion bullets with trails) it was edited with. Avoid this one if you value 2 hours of your life that you could be doing something much more productive with. I felt cheated in the end.

One trend in movies I am not a huge fan of is the antihero who talks very, very little and shows nearly no emotion. It might work occasionally, but too many films create guys who seem this way. This is THE major reason I did not enjoy "The Heavey", as Boots Mason (Gary Stretch) barely talks and his face is like stone. This gets VERY old, very quickly.

Boots is a thoroughly disgusting, violent and remorseless guy. When bad things happen in his life, he blames others instead of looking at himself. So, when he learns his brother is dying and needs bone marrow, Boots refuses, as the brother didn't do anything to stop him going to prison...though Boots was sent there because he killed someone. Much of the early portions of the movie consist of him beating up folks for loan sharks and killing people. Later, the film gets even nastier and there's apparently a contract out on him and his brother. Why? I really didn't care.

You really have to like seeing violence to get into the film. There is a scene where a guy is chopping off fingers...and you wonder why they show as much as they did. Mind you it could have been worse...but for the average viewer it's more than bad enough.

Overall, a film which I didn't enjoy because of the monotone and unlikable character. I also felt that the plot occasionally made no sense (such as why the woman who Boots is holding hostage HELPS him...and none of her actions made any sense). Not a film I'd recommend.