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Summary: Thrilling video!
Review: There several interesting aspects of this movie to highlight:
The movie takes place with caracters that seem to come from the down and obscure world of modern England, where robbery and own-hand justice rule the scenario. Then, you will certainly notice the type of language this people use, sometimes impossible to understand and I guess even the English have trouble with it.
Now, with Brad Pitt (Mickey), he may be a pretty face, but in this film he is a tough and rude gypsy bare-knuckle boxer who takes the best out of people (materialisticly speaking, of course) and at the end of the movie... well, you will drop you jaw to the floor when you get there.
It is interesting to notice that this film takes in several completely different stories from totally different people that have to do nothing with each other, until destiny places them in the same place, at the same time and in the nastiest of the situations.
If you saw "Amores Perros", this is the type of Snatch. An exciting movie where everything is put together at the best of the movie, and where action is combined with caracter's intelligence to glue you on your seat until the movie is over.
By the way, there wouldn't be movie without the dog, so pay attention to what this amazing fellow does throughout the film.
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Summary: Fast-paced comedy from the UK
Review: Guy Ritchie is easily one of the most inventive directors around today, as is evidenced by Snatch. The 2-DVD collection has tons of great features, some of which are hidden. For example you can see a montage of all of the characters in the movie cursing by pressing the remote directions in a certain order (if I remembered it I would include it). Otherwise the movie itself is a funny, exciting ride. Following the misadventures of Turkish and Tommy, two unlicensed boxing promoters, Ritchie manages to make movie not only exciting plot-wise but visually stimulating as well. The opening sequence of the jewel heist is one of the best openings to a movie that I can think of in recent memory. The cast is great although not packed with huge names (Brad Pitt excluded). Regardless each actor plays a unique character that viewers will come to favor (mine is Cousin Avi). Not only a movie to watch and laugh at once but one to watch over for a long time.
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Summary: Snatch this movie up
Review: this movie quickly became part of my all time greats list of movies and it only consists of about five movies tops. i would have to compare it to any gangster/hitman movie plus i'd say it is three stars better than any of them. It's just that cool of a movie. Brad Pitt makes a great crazy boxer and all the other characters are right there with him with their awsome acting. Whaether it's Boris dodging dullets or bricktop feeding people to pigs you will be laughing it up because you will always know that when you back up things come from behind.
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Summary: Greatest Movie Ever
Review: This DVD is excellent. This is probably one of the only movies I have ever laughed out loud. Brad Pitt plays a character with a very funny oirish accent. You can get many more things out of this movie than humor, such as action. This is a good action movie, a good example would be when Brad Pitt boxes. The first time I saw this movie was with my friend Jordan, I thought I was going to die laughing - literally. I would recommend this movie to people from the ages of 18+ for the reason that there is profanity in it. This is a hilarious movie overall; and the accents are just hysterical. If you want to see a good comedy/action movie this is what you want. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Lock, Stock and THREE Smoking Barrels
Review: Three smoking barrels is what Guy Ritchie said he hoped this movie wouldn't be. Well... It is. Fortunately for him I liked Lock-Stock, and I think Snatch is actually a slightly better movie. If you like complex interweaving story-lines, then Guy Ritchie's your man. The only real difference between this and Lock-Stock, is Snatch had a few more experimental camera shots and surreal settings than I remember Lock-Stock having. Funny, Brutal, and Interesting.
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Summary: Guilty Pleasure
Review: Snatch got plenty of bad reviews when it came out and didn't seem much like my type of movie anyway, but I found it immensly entertaining and funny. The insane, convoluted story and wonky editing were all part of the experience, the violence was frequently hilarious, and the characters were great. I laughed as much as anyone at Brad Pitt's ridiculous oirish accent, but I loved his character, and felt that it wouldn't be half as good with decent diction. And I felt that Vinnie Jones was the best of the bunch as the always somewhat bored looking gangster who is totally unfazed by anything.
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Summary: Anything to Declare? Yeah. Don't go to England.
Review: Critics of this movie get usually harp on its similarity to "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" -- director Guy Ritchie's first feature film. Both have a flashy, gimmicky, rock-video style, Martin-Scorsese-after too much espresso camera tricks and machine-gun editing that often leaves you as dazed as if Muhammad Ali just let you have it with a six-punch combination to the head. They also point out the British fixation on Quentin Tarantino and how both films seem to ape that combination of quirky dialogue, humorously bloody violence, and out-of-sync storytelling that seems to make no sense until the very end, when everything ties up.These criticisms are all accurate and they are also the reason why most critics are fools. They just can't enjoy a movie for its own sake. You could make a number of 'legitimate' criticisms of "Snatch" -- but why waste your time? This movie absolutely rocks. Everything about it from the cast to the dialogue to the soundtrack fits as perfectly as the well-oiled parts of a brand-new pistol. Not a replica pistol either -- a Desert Eagle .50, to be exact. I'll skip the plot. Other reviewers nailed it. It revolves simultaneously around a stolen diamond and a bare-knuckles boxing match, but the plot is really just a vehicle for A) mayhem and B) Ritchie's terrific cast of characters to do their thing. I am here to tell you they did it. Tip....top. Jason Statham is spot-on as Turkish, the gruff and unflappable boxing promoter whose withering, double-barreled sarcasm is a far more effective weapon than any gun. Dennis Farina and Vinny Jones are also excellent as a vitriolic diamond dealer named Avi and his sword-wielding, Jaguar-driving, Guinness-drinking thug-for-hire named Bullet Tooth Tony, respectively. Alan Ford gives an Oscar-caliber performance (or what would be an Oscar-caliber performance, if the Oscars ever went to the right bloke)as Brick Top, a local crime lord who wallows in his own villainy like the Lanastershire pigs he keeps to eat the bodies of his numerous victims. But the brass ring goes to Brad Pitt as the Irish gypsy Mickey O'Neil, an unwashed bare-knuckle boxing champ who speaks largely incomprehensible gibberish and comes off as a punch-drunk
half-wit, but ends up being the smartest guy in the film. Actually everybody in the cast delivers the goods and then some, but my Tam O'Shanter is especially off to Pitt, who destroys any remnants of the pretty-boy image that might have survived "Fight Club."
The dialogue just crackles. Americans may be defeated by some of the slang, but for the most part Ritchie's characters achieve the very impressive goal of both spitting out tremendously funny, profanity-laden dialogue and always staying in character, something that Tarantino's bad guys never seem capable of doing. Nor is this movie hamstrung by the long, boring, listen-to-my dialogue-isn't-it-quirky-and-original intervals that plagued "Pulp Fiction." But comparisons between the two are largely facile. "Snatch" is not a better-faster-more version of any other movie: it is its own crazy, crooked, wild ride. But who cares anyway? Another Commonwealth boy, Angus Young, once said about AC/DC's music: "People always say, 'Those blokes made another album and it sounds just like the last one.' Well, give me more of the same, any time."
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Summary: And zen zee germans come ...........
Review: This isn't as good as Guy Ritchie's first film "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels", but its still a great film. Ritchie went with what worked from his last film and incorporated it into a different story about a diamond. Ritchie likes to get into detail with each of his characters. Each gets his own intro, and some get their own themes. This helps the audience relate better to the characters and understand them better.
Overall, there are a lot of sub-plots and stars in this great flick about the search for "a diamond the size of a fist". A lot of action, snappy dialogue, and plot twisting is involved. But be forewarned, if you don't like films where most of the characters have accents, use a lot of slang, and try to kill people .... then go watch a freakin' Disney movie and keep living in happy happy land.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: despite the all-star caliber cast, this script is contrived and badly structured, making it hard to pay attention to the movie. The cinematogaphy and idea behind the plot are good; however the acting is sub-standard for this group, and ultimatly, this is smiply boaring. Don't bother renting it, and certainly don't buy it.
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Summary: coolest film of 2001
Review: awesome film about british gangsters. brad pitt is hilarious as the fast talking, tattooed pikey. coolest film of 2001.
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