The Heavy; The Manchurian Candidate

If I say that Vinnie Jones's performance as a corrupt, sadistic DI with the Metropolitan Police isn't the worst thing in The Heavy , you'll have some idea how stupendously bad this absurd thriller is. Gary Stretch plays the thuggish son of an upper-middle-class family who's blackmailed into assassinating his brother, a Tory MP, as he announces his candidacy for the party leadership from a stage in Whitehall. Let me say this before I burst a blood vessel: if you feel the urge to see a political assassination movie, go to a venue where they're reviving the 1962 masterwork The Manchurian Candidate , one of the best, most influential political thrillers in movie history.