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.

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.

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.