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Summary: "If it's stones and it's stolen, Doug's the man to talk to."
Review: When Guy Ritchie (more famous for being married to Madonna than a filmaker)made Lock, Stock in 1998 he left us wanting more of Guy's unique story-telling and original talent."Snatch" is more of the same and not much more.With lines like, "I thought you said he was a getaway driver.What the fu** can he get away from?" And "You know, London...fish and chips, cup o' tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fu**in' Poppins...London," make it an absolute CLASSIC of a film.Not to mention a great cast including Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, Vinnie Jones, Mike Reid, Dennis Farina & Jason Statham.A great story, comedy and brutal violence.The story follows "Franky Four Fingers" (Benicio Del Toro) who steals a diamond with 3 other goons in Antwerp.Franky visits dodgy ex-KGB Russian, "Boris The Blade" (Rade Sherbedgia)to buy a guy.Franky buys one, but in return Boris asks for him to place a bet at a bookies instead of cash.So he does.
Boris then pays a visit to 2 small-time pawnbrokers , "Sol" & "Vinny" to hold-up the bookies and rob Franky's diamond for 50 grand's work.Sol & Vinny get "Tyrone" their getaway driver involved.
Sol & gang rob the bookies and get away with Frank and his diamond (the diamond's in a case attached to Franky's arm).
"Tommy" (Stephen Graham) & "Turkish" (Jason Statham) are partners in the world in boxing promoters.Tommy & Gorgeous George(friend and tough guy) visit some "Pikeys" (Irish gypsies) to buy a caravan for an office.The Pikeys are lead by "One Punch Mikey" (Brad Pitt).The caravan's wheels fall off, the Pikeys refuse to give them their money back, but instead Mickey challenges George for a fight to decide who gets the caravan.Mickey surprisingly beats George with one punch and puts him in a critical state.It turns out Mickey is a bare-knuckle boxing champion.This leaves Tommy & Turkish with no fighter, they decide to use Mickey, but will "Brick Top", their boss mind?
Brick Top runs an illegal bookies (yes, the one that Sol & gang robbed).Brick Top uses Mickey but states clearly that he has to get knocked out in the 4th round.Bric Top sets out to find out who robbed his bookies.
Everything gets complicated after this, "Avi" & "Doug The Head" who are cousins, and friends of Franky set out to look for him after he doesn't show up for a meeting.They get they help of "Bullet Tooth Tony" (Vinnie Jones) to help.
This film is truely entertaing.Not as original as Lock, Stock but still a winner.I think film critics didn't give this good reviews because it doesn't live up to the expectations of Lock, Stock.However, get your hands on this film and I guarantee you will enjoy it!
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Summary: Snatch (2000) d: Ritchie, Guy
Review: Known to indiependent film fans as the director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (and to everyone else as That British Guy Who Just Married Madonna), Ritchie returns with another complex gangster / crime film. Similar in plot, style, and characters (too many to list here) to his previous work. However, Snatch stands on its own as inter-connecting, plot-twisting enjoyable entertainment. "...an avalanche of sinister and comic events that wind their way through the rough and tumble worlds of bare-knuckle boxing, pawn shops, pig farming and... a stray dog." The underworld farce is told primarily from the perspective of a boxing opportunist who acquires Brad Pitt as a replacement boxer due to take a fall in the fourth round. Pitt does another award winning performance as the double-crossing, fast-talking Irish gypsy. Who's lines are unintelligible without the DVD subtitles. The bookie and his people have their own plans, as does Dennis Farina, the Jewish American jewelry thief, Boris, the ex-KGB, and a group of street thugs with names like Franky Four Fingers and Bullet Tooth Tony. Snatch is sometimes violent, always gritty, and mostly funny.
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Summary: Funny with an amazing plot.
Review: I have never seen a movie quite like this. It's funny beyond any normal American movie. The plot is actually three unrelated plots that slowly meld into one incredible plot that centers the main characters in the movie achieving the goal of the other two plots. The three plots are: Boxing promoters looking for a way to make some quick cash, three black guys (very funny) out to make a quick job in and end up stealing a diamond, and the American/English diamond salesmen who are trying to get their stolen diamond sold in America. You'll be amazed how the story ends up. You'll love all the little parts in between.
All told it's pretty much a male macho movie, but girls going to my university here think it's a funny movie too. Not for people who don't like heavy swearing in a movie.
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Summary: I can't believe how this movie grabbed me
Review: I watched this movie with no expectations or foreknowledge and was blown away. It was funny, vibrant, great characters, great locations, great photography, great soundtrack and extremely funny. This is the first movie in a long time that I have watched multiple times within a few weeks. I have enjoyed it even more each time I watched it. The DVD adds a lot, too. Some great cut scenes, some great behind the scenes info and SUBTITLES are key for Brad Pitt's intentionally unintelligible lines.
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Summary: i cant stop watching this...help me!
Review: ...i cant get enough of this and it's starting to creep me out.
i had to watch this the first time with the subtitles on so i could keep up with the story line...but ever since then, i'm good to go!
the only time i'm not watching this is when i'm watching "o brother where art thou"....
i enjoy this more than i did "pulp fiction"...this is just a good movie.
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Summary: Snatch- One of the best in a while
Review: Where to begin? As a non-Brit, I had to watch this movie thrice just to get all the dialogue down. That's okay, because if you like comedies of errors, you'll want to watch Snatch thrice.
One of my only gripes is I was disappointed with Benicio Del Toro's small amount of screen time. The commercials and reviews give the impression that he's one of the leading characters. Brad Pitt was funnier than I was expecting; his portrayal of Mickey seemed very accurate. Turkish's wry narration kept me chuckling throughout, and the introduction of Bullet Tooth Tony towards the end made up for Del Toro's small screen time.
All in all, very entertaining quality film. What pleased me the most was the lack of romantic sub-plot, which is now becoming almost a strict formula in films. I thought the plot moved nicely, with an appropriate ending.
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Summary: A Truly Funny Film
Review: Centered around a stolen diamond and a fixed boxing match, Snatch is filled with a vast array of characters including an illegal fight promoter and his partner, a crime lord who litterally feeds his victims to the pigs, a former KGB agent, Jewish jewel thieves, 3 would-be robbers, a hitman, and a pack of gypsies or "pikies." Impossible to explain except that while all these characters initially have little or nothing in common, circumstances make them all collectively collide in an hysterical comedy of errors done as only the British can do.
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Summary: Gets better each time I watch it !
Review: I've never seen such an eclectic group of actors, as well as characters, that worked so well together. Snatch brings together Hollywood major-leaguers Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, and Dennis Farina and throws them into an off the wall British comedy with hilarious results. Loosely, Snatch is about a diamond heist, gone horribly wrong. Frankie Four Fingers (Del Toro) and friends pose as Hasidic Jews to steal an 84 carat diamond in Antwerp. The plan is for Frankie to take the diamond back to New York (via a stopover in London) and give it to Avi (Farina). However, he is waylaid in London by Boris the Blade, whom he goes to for a gun. Boris is tipped off by one of Frankie's collaborators (who just happens to be Boris's brother) about the stone, and about Frankie's gambling addiction (how do you think he came to be minus a finger ?). Boris devises a plan to get the diamond for himself. Enter a slew of characters that are as hilarious as they are diverse: Sol (Lennie James) and Vinnie (Robbie Gee), petty thieves running a not-entirely-reputable pawn shop, and their oversized getaway driver ("What the hell can he get away from ?" Vinnie asks Sol at one point) Tyrone (newcomer Ade); Brick Top (Alan Ford), a vicious modern day gangster that arranges (and rigs) all kinds of illegal fights (of both the animal and human variety); and last but certainly not least Turkish (Jason Statham) and Tommy (Stephan Graham), partners (but not the kind that "hold hands and take windy walks," as Turkish puts it) in running an illegal bare-knuckle boxing ring. What follows is so fast-paced and intertwined that it is hard to describe it. [....] I loved this movie so much that I find it hard to keep it to a minimum when discussing it. I haven't yet found a review that truly did it justice, and I'm sure I'm not doing much better. But trust me. . .even if you're not "into British humor" you'll love Snatch.
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Summary: a MUST see film
Review: I just watched this movie 10 minutes ago, and it still keeps on revolving in mind, which it will do for a long, long time. Probably one of the best movies since Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction...a must see for anyone looking for a break from all the crap that's out there...
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Summary: What a phenomenal Disc and Film
Review: Take for instance, classic/ecclectic music from such bands as the Stranglers, 10cc, John Murphy, The Specials, and Oasis -- and then add fantastic direction from Guy Ritchie with innovative sequences. The movie itself is phemonenal (to say nothing of the DVD package) -- of the order of Merit of British comedy the likes of which need to be duplicated in the era of crummy American Films. As for the Special Edition, well some of the deleted scenes are huge (that is to say, just outright funny as hell) -- however, I can never understand why they (the manufacturers) don't use double sided DVDs and save us a little green. This DVD has the WIDE and the STANDARD view on on side -- why not put the bonus footage on the other side of the disc instead of having a second disc.
All my tiny gripes aside (pertaining to wastefullness) -- this movie will make you laugh -- and you'll have to watch it a few times unless you're British -- to figure out what they're saying! Enjoy, a must-own.
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