Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels Details

Simply brilliant

- If you think that a commercial-shooting director shouldn't attempt the big screen...

- If you enjoyed Tarantino's work, 'Fargo', 'Trainspotting', 'Fight Club', 'Snatch' or 'Memento'...

- If you want a taste of rhiming cockney...

...you must definitely watch this film.

Just a warning, it's definitely not for the narrow-minded...

A true oddity... don't miss it!

[Highly rated reviewer]

When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop.

Guy Ritchie has a skill: the skill to take multi-layered gangster plots, weave them together, and come out with a fabric of the finest quality. As far as I'm concerned, if Ritchie can maintain this level of creativity, he can keep on making these films until the end of time. His characters are so well scripted and the actors so well chosen, there is a three-dimensional quality to this film, as if you can almost taste the sulphur in the shotgun blasts.

To describe the plot is difficult, unless we choose one character as the hero and the rest as the anti-heroes... but that's also diffcult. While certain people seem to be on our side, they're all equally involved in the plot. Twenty-somethings playing poker, a porn king who cheats at cards, Big Chris the hired thug, the stereotyped black ganja dealer, the northern monkeys, Barry the Baptist... all great characters.

Another aspect of Ritchie's films is that instead of good vs. evil, he offers us bad versus evil. All the characters do bad things: steal, drink, smoke dope and kill if necessary. But some are simply 'bad' (people who would be morally upright in a different setting) and others are 'evil' (no moral code at all, black all the way to the core of their heart). This almost non-dichotomy is probably not unique to Ritchie, but is something he excels in.