“The Big Ugly” (** out of four) was a relatively tame action melodrama about a group of London mob bosses (Vinnie Jones, Malcolm McDowell, and others) who invest in a West Virginia oil field in hopes of laundering dirty money but this puts them at heads with local underworld enforcers (Ron Perlman and Bruce McGill) and various rednecks (Brandon Sklenar and Dan Buran) who want to muscle them out. Mediocre attempt to mix British-underworld action with typical Southern redneck stereotypes; remains watchable but never shifts into high gear. Some might consider this an acting stretch for Jones but don’t warm up that Oscar award just yet.