Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
A Disgrace To Criminals Everywhere
Streetwise charmer and cardshark Eddy (Nick Moran) walks into the biggest card game of his life carrying a stake backed by the life-savings of his three best mates, Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). Eddy is the sharpest player on the circuit but the game is a set-up, and Eddy leaves owing underworld boss “Hatchet” Harry (P.H. Moriarty) half a million half a million. Harry gives Eddy a week to come up with the money before he starts taking fingers as collateral. Eddy’s dad, JD (Sting) can cancel the debt by handing over his bar, lock, stock and barrel to his old adversary, Harry. JD refuses to give in, feeling his street-tough son can get himself out of his own messes. So, while Harry sends a couple of petty crooks to steal a pair of antique shotguns to add to his collection, Eddy and his mates plan a caper that will enable them to pay off Harry and make out like bandits!
In a comedy of errors, and a helter-skelter ride through London’s gangland, the guns, cash, drugs and identities become all mixed up as a full complement of London’s lowlife get involved in a melee which even all their menace can’t handle. Full of energy and surprising twists at every turn, it’s a rollicking comedy that has is all, Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
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Stylish but No Substance - jmunds
I enjoy most Guy Ritchie Aestheitc films. Yet this film felt like it was a tad over done. The characters were not fruitful nor interesting, yet the situations were at times interesting well placed. Yet the acting was really sub par, whereas in Snatch or richie's other work this marriage of acting and stylish crime is more pronounced a supplemental. Ignore this film, it really is not worth your time.Loved it! - themikelist
I've always been a big fan of the Snatch Movie, like to call this one Snatch part 1. Great film, has all elements, action, comedy, some suspense. I actually went to the store to buy a copy of this after. Guy Ritchie makes great films, if you haven't seen it, do so, again, especially if you enjoyed Snatch.A Brilliant Black Comedy Of Incompetence - CharleyJames
Guy Ritchie sticks things where he shouldn't.
He puts his camera in funny places. He likes to put it in pots - in a boiling pot on a stove or in the pot at the center of a poker table. He even plants it in a pot of pot plants.
He learned all this from television.
A former director of TV commercials, Ritchie knows how to grab a viewer's attention, make a point in 15 seconds and move on. Sometimes he doesn't even make a point. He just does it for fun. This was his first feature film and he had a good time.
Some think this is empty razzmatazz. Don't worry about it. He's spinning a story. Sometimes it's in an impenetrable East End London dialect. Don't worry about that either.
The film seems to be a lot of things it's not. It's not just a caper movie and not really another Quentin Tarantino rip-off. What it actually is is a shaggy-dog story.
It’s a comedy of incompetence. There is only one person who knows what he’s doing and is the one who gets the loot. Until that happens, gangs bump into one another and sometimes bump one another off, a good-guy gang, a bad-guy gang and a gang of ganja cultivators somewhere in between.
The hard-to-understand dialect soon becomes part of the joke. It's unlikely even British audiences who made the film a big hit got it all.
Not understanding the rules is what the movie is about. One of the good guys never quite thinks things through, and his buddy reels at the end of the rigged card game, never quite recovering.
They're up against some tough customers. A cage the pot dealers built around their door can't keep trouble out, and one of the thugs is called Baptist because he holds people's head under water until they see the light. Most never do.
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Stylish but No Substance - jmunds
I enjoy most Guy Ritchie Aestheitc films. Yet this film felt like it was a tad over done. The characters were not fruitful nor interesting, yet the situations were at times interesting well placed. Yet the acting was really sub par, whereas in Snatch or richie's ...Loved it! - themikelist
I've always been a big fan of the Snatch Movie, like to call this one Snatch part 1. Great film, has all elements, action, comedy, some suspense. I actually went to the store to buy a copy of this after. Guy Ritchie makes great films, if you haven't seen it, ...A Brilliant Black Comedy Of Incompetence - CharleyJames
Guy Ritchie sticks things where he shouldn't.
He puts his camera in funny places. He likes to put it in pots - in a boiling pot on a stove or in the pot at the center of a poker table. He even plants it in a pot of pot plants.
He learned all ...