Jason Statham and the Lock, Stock Gang
It was a dirty dozen years ago: I was working for Time Out magazine and a publicist wanted me to preview a low budget British gangster film made by a first-time filmmaker. This was at a time when low budget British gangster films were ten-a-penny – and almost all dreadful. There was no reason to think this one would by any better, it featured a few familiar faces, a handful of actors who had been kicking around for a couple of years (Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nicholas Rowe, Steven...
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