The Big Ugly

No character backgrounds confusing. Just really boring. Great cast of good actors but lacking any real purpose in the story. Just awful

Hard-Guy Vinney, soccer-player-turned-actor just about acquits himself here. The W. Virginia location looked good, as did the contributions of his screen-partners Ron Perlman, as aged London gang-leader, "Harris" , and Malcolm McDowell, red-neck oilman's-leader, "Preston". The clash of culture between limey metropolitan gangster and backwoods oil-man, with an unexpected ecological & ideological tinge was always going to be a pretty difficult one - as it proved. The real disappointment here was the Plot, which started OK enough, but really was grasping for straws a long time before the last reel of film.

Don't expect another Lock Stock type film and don't expect too much. The story line was pretty good but sad to say some of the acting was not. Watched it till the end and never once thought about turning it off.

British lads buy into an oil deal in an attempt to launder money. Vinny Jones and Malcom McDowell star as Neelyn and Harris, trying to make some easy cash. With Preston (Ron Perlman) as the usual sidekick. Here, he respects and bonds with the locals. Also produced by Ron Perlmen. So of course, he's going to come out looking good. It's a little spacey.. intentionally, for affect. And when Neelyn's girl goes missing, things start to get hairy. People on both sides.. the outsiders and the locals try to figure out how Junior (Brandon Sklenar) is involved. The subplot here is that Will (Nick Braun) wants his girl to quit her job so he can take care of her, but she's not having it. And then it gets silly.. when the company tries to tell Will who he can date, he fights back. Fans turning slowly... what the hell ? In lieu of a good script, write weirdness, and lots of violence. I kind of lost respect for the story here. It could have been a good murder mystery. But not so good. Written and directed by Scott Wiper. And Paul Tarantino.

The film had a good plot but was unfortunately butchered by the lack of character profiles and terrible script writing, the action scenes sucked, it was like the producer was a fan of sons of anarchy and snatch and thought " ooo that would be a good film!