The film loses points with me on the basis of Vinnie Jones' character. By all accounts he looks and acts the part of a bruiser, but in the pair of scenes in which he goes against Junior Crawford (Brandon Sklenar), the guy who's visibly about half his size works him over without much trouble. And he's nominally the bodyguard for London mob boss Harris (Malcolm McDowell), who consistently berates the guy for not attending to business where his girlfriend is concerned. What's odd and different about the story is that by the time the principal players get done doing away with each other, the ones left standing to make a quick getaway are a couple of ancillary characters who didn't figure prominently in the initial proceedings. Which is OK I guess because it makes for an unconventional resolution to the picture, about as exciting as Preston Lawford's (Ron Perlman) showdown with Harris, done from a sitting position because let's face it, after all the booze they consumed, they probably couldn't stand up.
Review of The Big Ugly
The Big Ugly
(2020)
"Good men do bad things. Bad men do good things."
29 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers