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Snatch (Special Edition)

Snatch (Special Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: brick top rocks
Review: bricktop, the character is just out of this world, his comments and great knowledge on the feeding habits of pigs...hilarious and the nemesis part, wicked. a max'd-out production methinks. too bad the "quotes and trivia" part doesn't have the "you're alwaya gonna have trouble getting rid of a body in one piece..." piece tho'.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Stealing Stones is Hazardous
Review: Jewel thief Franky Four Fingers(Benicio Del Toro) steals an 86 karrat diamond for his boss Avi(Dennis Farrina). But Franky is set up by a psychotic, sneaky Russian mobster named Boris the Blade(Rade Sherbedgia), he asks Franky to place a bet down for him at a bookies. Franky unwittingly agrees.... What Franky doesn't know is that Boris hired two pawn shop owners (Robbie Gee and Lennie James) to rob Franky and take the briefcase which contains the diamond inside. Things go awry and the 2 pawn shop owners are caught up in the middle of this diamond war. Meanwhile in London two boxing promoters-Turkish and Tommy (Jason Statham and Stephen Graham)are looking to strike it big with the bare knuckling boxing champ One Punch Mickey O'Neil(Brad Pitt). They've got him set to take a dive in a boxing match rigged by crime lord Bricktop(Alan Ford). What they didn't know is that Mickey can knock a man out with one punch, hence the name ONE PUNCH MICKEY. So of course Mickey knocks out his opponent in the first round and gets into a little trouble. Bricktop gives Turkish, Tommy and Mickey one more chance to do it right and if they fail then it's "OINK OINK"......... Avi travels to London and teams up with his cousin Doug aka The Head(Mike Reid) in attempt to retreat the missing diamond along with four fingered Franky. But Avi gets pissed and hires Bullet Tooth Tony(Vinnie Jones) to deal out some major payback. The last man standing gets the diamond!

Snatch on DVD is a dream come true for fans of the movie! It's loaded with awesome features! Snatch was born to be on DVD! The picture is astounding! The sound is astonishing! The overall content of the film and DVD is perfect! A 2 disc SPECIAL EDITION is exactly what I wanted and exactly what I was hoping for! I must have seen this movie about 17 times in the theater! It's one of those films that never get boring and always stays at the top!

If you like Quentin Tarantino films and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels you will LOVE Snatch! It's awesome!

It's brilliantly directed and filled with non-stop laughs, action and entertainment!

Check out SNATCH on DVD!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: So it's true ... Hollywood can still make movies ......
Review: that are superb and enjoyable without knowing exactly what is going to happen in the first 3 minutes of the film .....

Ok .. there is one thing that may detract from this movie, and may be a reason for some people to review it negatively, and that is that you must be quiet and pay attention to the film. Oh my goodness thats almost blasphemy today in a world of very very light intellectual fare .....

The character study and writing is absolutely fabulous and so well balanced that all the actors absolutely shine and are able to present challenging roles perfect to character. That the director, Guy Ritchie, cast Brad Pitt as the Irish gypsy with a dialect that only his band and his mother would understand took courage, and thats what makes this film exceptional. I mean all
you have to do is watch 'Enemy at the Gates' and listen to the stupidest accents of the Russians and the Germans to know what a 'sell out' directs work looks like ... total poop .... Anybody who has ever met a gypsie knows that they have their own 'for all intents and porposes' language that they only understand...

That then is the juice of 'Snatch' in that the other characters all make bets and buy things from the gypsies without really knowing what they are buying or betting on, and, they are too embarrased to ask ... Meanwhile, the gypsies don't take any notice, since they understand everyone perfectly, and just wonder why everyone around them is so stupid and practiccally begging to be taken advantage of ....

Tyrone, played by Ade, the getaway driver that is bigger than the car and can't drive was so hllarious I could barely get off the floor laughing ....

On the technical side the disc has been flawlessly produced and has been cut as a dual-layer-disc allowing the viewer to see this film in the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1:85:1 ...

This movie will rekindle your faith in Hollywood filmaking even though it was mostly filmed in the UK .....

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Drop it like a hot potato.
Review: *Lock, Stock, etc.* for a mass audience -- meaning, the Americans, presumably. Nothing lost or gained. As the Amazon reviewer correctly points out, it's the same movie, differing only in ancillary details. It's bad enough having to sit through the same plot from the same director twice, but what's worse is having to endure the same trendy, post-Tarantino, rock-video, cross-cutting mannerisms. Ample proof that there is nothing more cliched and -- sorry to blow everyone's minds, here -- conformist than entertainment aimed at the youth market. Which is not to say that *Snatch* is all bad, however. Guy Ritchie does show a few new tricks up his sleeve: in particular, he reveals no small measure of discipline by meticulously re-shooting the same scenes from different characters' perspectives. I also enjoyed the self-deprecating joke of having a character (Brad Pitt) whose speech is virtuously impossible to understand -- not that this is terrifically rare with British imports (*Nil By Mouth* wins my prize for that). The joke, of course, is that an American superstar is said character in said British import.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Another Guy Ritchie masterpiece
Review: I loved Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie's previous film) and Snatch lived up to my expectations. The amazing plot, which ties together the stories of many different people, keeps your interest throughout. There is some profanity and violence, so it's best not watched by young kids. Overall I liked Lock, Stock more than Snatch, but both are _excellent_ movies, and both are in my small DVD collection.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: this is for the dvd its defective and i have tried many
Review: I have to say I have never had this much trouble with a dvd. I got a bad copy of Die hard box set and gladitior, But the second ones were fine. I am on my third copy of this and all three do the same thing at the menu screen when the columbia logo comes up the colors and everything goes crazy it become jambuled and distorted. This is very agaravating and have tried it three times and now am just going to thorw it in the garbarge because all the store will do is give me another and it will do the same thing im sure. Columbia tristar needs to recall this and get a new batch. By the way the player am playing it on is a panosonic a150. so please if you buy know you are probbally going to have to chunk it.The movie is actaully pretty good although not as good as pulp fiction like other reveiwers have been saying. Please at least give us qaulity dvds that will play. I buy so many and this has never happened so maybe it wont again.The disc also sometimes will come up and say this is not competiable try another disc. This is a peice of junk.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A LUMP OF COAL
Review: okay,lets count the cliches: a heist movie that rips off scenes from other movies far superior than it, stylized,hip gangsters, moral ambiguity where everyone's a victim but no one's innocent, cool camera angles we've been seeing since Reservior Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and finally, a smattering of hip hop flava. At some point I am confident this fad will run it's course. But until then, i am sure we'll see a lot more of these lumps of coal.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Brilliant
Review: You may not be a Brad Pitt fan. That's okay! You barely recognize him here. The rest of the actors are not well known in American cinema, though almost all are famous in the UK (even if it isn't for their acting). The movie is very similar in pacing and style to Guy Ritchie's earlier movie Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, but the characters and situations are just as funny and feel fresh. I laughed so hard while watching this film, the twelve times I saw it. Thoroughly enjoyable!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Heard Bad Things but,
Review: It was suprisingly good. There are so many twists and turns it really holds your interest. The only thing that was difficult was trying to understand what in the world Brad Pitt was saying three-quarters of the times, bravo to him for pulling off the "parkies" accent! It was a marvelous perfromace by Pitt and his co-stars, it is a hetic, super involved kick butt movie. I would highly recommend it for all you sitting home on a friday night :)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Filming, Great cast. Decent plot
Review: The thing about Snatch that thrilled me the most was the way Guy Ritchie chose to film his scenes. I thought it added a little bit of "hip and exciting" element to this movie. One of my favorite scenes is when they are all dressed as Rabbis and go in and rob the Jewl store, the filming is cool and different. The down to this movie is the fast moving plot. I had to see it twice to get it fully but then I had a "oh ya I get it" type of reaction.
When I ask my friends If they have scene it they say "oh that movie with Brad Pitt ya it was okay." Brad Pitt (although he is in it) plays a CO starring role. Some of the larger roles are givven to Vinnie Jones and Jason Stathem. Despite the fastness of the plot Snatch is definatly worth a shot at seeing. See it agian if you dont get it. Rated R for lauguge and some violence


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