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Summary: Compare it to what?
Review: I read a lot of the reviews below and some people are too caught up on past movies and how this relates to them. What a waste of time! It was a great movie, I laughed almost through the entire thing. Does it matter how it relates to Pulp Fiction? No. It is a great movie, one I will watch again.
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Summary: Barrels of Fun
Review: This English version of a twisty, dark comedic Pulp Fiction is a definite must see. If you like guns, violence, gangsters, comedy, and gambling (some of my personal favorites),you will love this movie. This movie gives me personal satisfaction in that it wasn't extremely popular and hyped up. I randomly saw it in the theaters, and to my delight, it turned out to be one of my favorite movies. You gotta love those diamonds in the rough.
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Summary: Showing Hollywood how it's done!
Review: Surely one of the most original flicks to have been produced for many years with innovative direction and a thumping, hip and sexy soundtrack. This film makes Pulp Fiction look like a 'B' movie and shows just how much Tarrantino's work has dated over the last few years. I'm not going to review the content of the film at all only to say - "Get it from the video shop, then YOU WILL buy it!" The director was wise to cast relatively unknown actors - I wonder how Brad Pitt will fair in the sequel to Lock Stock wrapping at the moment? I hope that the tinsel-town glitz doesn't spoil the grit and the magic of the original. I hope you guys state-side can understand enough of the cockney-rhyming slang to get the jokes, else this film may well be wasted on you - that's all for now - I'm sticking the DVD on again! That was emotional...
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Review: Three stars is probably a bit kind. Sure, it isn't especially *bad*, but it's just too painfully another one of these Trainspotting meets Pulp Fiction hip British "cult hit" seedy crass crime misadventures. There have been FAR too many films like this. This is probably one of the better, but that only helps it so much. The direction is at times quite inventive and interesting, but at points it becomes a bit too music-video-ish and it begins to get annoying. I liked the 2-star review a few back, I agree with many of the criticisms that reviewer made. I think I enjoyed the film a bit more than he/she must've, but those are largely valid criticisms. I'm not sure if Danny Boyle is really that original or he's just the lucky guy who slipped through the cracks and attained acclaim; and I know Quentin Tarantino is a very liberal borrower of ideas from other sources. But a discussion of the merits and demerits of those two directors is for someplace else entirely -- the fact of the matter is that between the two of them, they have already done this type of film, and both have done it quite successfully if you ask me. A film like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (such a CrAzY title!) becomes, at this point, the mere byproduct of a hip new trend that the aforementioned directors began, or at any rate popularized. I'm not saying that a seedy pulp crime movie like this can never again be made by anyone other than Tarantino or Boyle, but there has to be a sense that the given director really has his own vision. This film just feels like too many hip new indie trends coming together at once. It's not a bad movie, but it isn't as good as the movies it came from.
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Summary: Roundogs
Review: It seems to me that everyone is comparing this with the wrong Tarrintino. The movie is a great mix of the colorful cast of Rounders and the gritty, rapid fire humor of Resovoir Dogs. I missed this one in the theatres, but, I rented it last week and I am gonna buy it. Very highly recommended
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I've gotta agree with most everyone else... this film was excellent! Extremely violent yes, but extremely entertaining too. I must have watched it like 10 times in one weekend. I just couldn't get enough of it.
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Summary: Terribly Over-rated
Review: Lock, Stock, and... should be filed under that great pantheon of obvious and too inspired films. A modern, hip gangster film crammed with all the prerequisite underdeveloped stock characters and plot that "surprisingly" converges in the finale. Its not like we havent seen this sort of thing before, so Guy Ritchie ends up making a film that feels like pieces of other, better, movies. A glorified clone. That is not to say it isnt okay. Despite all the flaws in predictable characters and plotting (not to mention events lifted from other movies), it is still interesting enough to make you want to see how it ends. It is tolerable, but, for myself, just in that one viewing. The cast of characters is way too large for any of them to really develop beyond caricature. Most are strictly defined by cool sounding names like Hatchet Harry, Rory Breaker, Barry the Babtist, and Jimmy the Saint (oh, sorry, Jimmy the Saint was from that other over-inspired hipster gangster film Things to do in Denver when You're Dead. Funny how they all run together) And, whether menacing or likable, or likably menacing, all of characters are laced with humor, and quips abound. But, it feels strained, with nearly every character speaking with fast, silver tongued ribbings (as in Bringing up Baby, Hudsucker Proxy,...Jackie Brown). Instead of being natural, it feels like a contrivance. So too, is the directing too reliant on devices. It is fine to have a technique you like, such as the slow motion montage, but if executed too glaringly and often it becomes tiresome. Guy Ritchies direction, the slow motion effects, the loopy or dead straight steadycam shots, just never struck me as being very individual or unique. Once again, it looks like a pale imitation of others, not quite original enough. Personally, the harsh lighting on the indoor scenes was hideous to look at, and the music seemed punched in, too loud, and not smoothly worked in at all. Vinnie Jones was very commanding as Big Chris. Val Blackwwod was completely unintimidating as Rory Breaker. And, Sting was completely Sting (hate when a celebrity shows up for five seconds in a movie, never establishing a character). If Guy Ritchie could escape the stranglehold of his peers, and find at least one original bone in his body, he may, someday, create something worthwhile.
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Summary: Lock, Stock...
Review: Much has been said about this film already but I thought I'd comment. I don't understand how this is Tarantino-esque. It seems to me that every time I pick up a book or read a film review these days anything new and hip is linked to Tarantino. I'm not slamming Quentin, because I enjoy his work, but it is a bit much. Using his name has become the post-modern art review equivalent of "tastes like chicken." Props to Guy Ritchie on his own account for making a film that is very witty and intelligent and original with a great script and soundtrack.
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Summary: Brilliant, better than Pulp Fiction
Review: Pulp Fiction fans should love this video, as it is quirkier, more exciting and funnier than Tarantino's film. Few movies of the past decade even have a plot that makes sense, let alone one that is interesting, but LS&2SB is not just well thought out, edge-of-seat suspenseful, but it is downright clever. Every single actor in this film does a fine to great job of acting, each portrays an unique character and each is perfectly cast. While not a gut-buster, this is a subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle black comedy. Unlike most other comedies, the camera work in this movie is just extraordinary. The interspersed slow motion and speeded-up filming of the departure from the card game (after one of the lead characters is swindled out of 500,000 pounds) captures a state of disbelief and sickening depression better than practically any other portrayal of emotion I can recall from any film. This movie contains a lot of violence, but it is done tastefully and in a limited fashion. The camera usually pans away from the actually violent parts, leaving the worst to our imaginations (or not, as we each see fit). This is a pleasant contrast with films like Casino, that contained revolting, sickening quantities of senseless violence. Finally, the music accompanying this film is excellent. Out of the perhaps several thousand movies I have seen or rented in the past two decades, this was the first soundtrack since Animal House that I purchased and it is a very strong collection of old and new tunes that really added a lot to the atmosphere. This one is worth buying, not just renting.
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Summary: I really didn't want to like this movie, but . . .
Review: It's the kind of idea you wince about, you know. 'Plunkett & MacLeane' is an excellent example - a few cult names thrown together in a mish-mash of guns and swearing with no underlying motive or actual humour. And 'LSATSB' is just the opposite. There's a great line of surrealism to everything in the movie - the bungling Scousers, the bickering gang of four, the casual violence of Big Chris, the absurd menace of Mr. Breaker. The script is tailored perfectly, timed to confuse and yet resulting in a wonderful mix of humour and coincidence. And the casting is first-rate. Those unable to expand their minds beyond Hollywood may have trouble with the style, and those looking for crystal-clear visuals will have to put up with the washed-out look. But for the rest of us, who like something a bit different, this is an accomplished and thoroughly entertaining film. with genuine humour. Go get.
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