The Heavy

12/21/2018 It should have been good, but it wasn't. The storyline??? What storyline and the shoot-em-up with Vinnie hurls chunks/really bad/SUKS gig time. Skip ahead, skip ahead, boy am I glad this thing is over. Don't waste your time.

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!

"The Heavy" was not as bad as some say. It is definitely a thriller; leaving the viewer wondering if what they think really happened. I will admit there was not enough closure, but it was a pretty good ride. The movie is slow to develop, but it gets to the point before it leaves you hungry for more. Gary Stretch was very good as the lead character. Adrian Paul also played his role very well. If you are looking for a movie that will make you want to see it twice, just to make sure you followed it correctly, then this is the one. I give it a 7/10 because I enjoyed it. The ending could have been better, but all in all, it was a decent movie.

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.

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.