Thats a shame, because few movie tough guys can match his gruff, bruised-knuckle charisma.
Perhaps he was just born a couple decades too late.
The latest offering from the Birmingham-born butchers son is a delightfully nasty little revenge movie calledAvengement.

Credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Anyway, Cain gets sent off to prison.
And not just any prison, but the roughest, toughest prison in all of England.
How rough and tough?
Its affectionately known as the Meat Grinder.
Which happens to be basically everyone, since his brother has put a bounty on his head.
(For the record, no, his brothers name is not Abel.)
These fights make up roughly 60 percent of the movie an uncommonly large percentage, to be sure.
But theyre not without their Neanderthal pleasures, if youre into that sort of thing.
And you almost get the sense that hes enjoying it.
It might just be acting, but I kinda doubt it.