"44 Inch Chest" directed by Malcolm Venille [review]
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2010-11-12
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Prescott, Nick
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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I can’t quite believe that it was almost ten years ago that I was raving to everyone I knew about an independent film from England called Sexy Beast. The great Ray Winstone (who began his career on TV in Robin of Sherwood, of all things) gave a bravura performance as Gal, a retired British criminal living on the Costa del Sol, laying low and enjoying the sunshine. Into his idyllic retirement came the terrifying Don – a genuinely frightening Ben Kingsley – whose mission was to entice Gal back to Blighty for one last job. The fireworks began there and didn’t let up for another 100 minutes; Sexy Beast was the most bracing, hilarious, tense and unmissable film about British criminality and masculinity to come along for years.
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Radio, ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Review, Film, Movie
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Prescott, Nick 2010. Review of "44 Inch Chest", directed by Malcolm Venille. 891 ABC Adelaide website.