Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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Summary: Smart and Realistic...Watch it twice!
Review: LS&2SB is a great British-type comedy, and it really shows some of the lives these guys live...

However, make sure you turn on the English subtitles, or you'll find it hard to understand some of the actors, and some of the British lingos and inuendos...

The movie jumps around to different plots a lot, but if you learn the faces of the characters, the situations they are in, and listen to the narration early in the film, you'll get how they all fit together to form a supreme plot and really keeps you going until the end...

The ending is the favorite part of this movie, because the 4 main characters finally realized they've gone through a week of hell, for nothing! The last 3-5 minutes are the best, and the freeze-frame ending brought a smirk to my face!

I recommend this movie to anyone over 16 years old...

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Summary: What a great flick, better then its cousin Snatch.!!!
Review: Lock Stock and Snatch are two movies by director Guy Ritchie , Snatch is the more famous of them with Brad Pitt, but Lock Stock.. is a better movie. I liked both of them, but this one is better. The plot is less convoluted, though still intricate and the characters are well defined. The cinematography is great, the scene where he loses all his money at poker and walks out with his head spinning is great!! Plus when the boys get drunk, its a great scene and very life like, I have gotten drunk many a time and a few times acted as crazy as that, if you liked Snatch, you will love this movie!!!

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Summary: Funniest film I've seen in years...
Review: I honestly don't remember the last time I laughed so hard. This is a movie which will leave you sore for days afterwards. A complicated tale, which actually improves with re-telling, "Lock, Stock" has more quoteable quotes than Shakespeare and is ten times more violent.

Featuring a mix of rising stars, old stars and even some genuine villains, "Lock, Stock" is the tale of a bunch of small-time crooks braced against the might of "Hatchet Harry", a big wheel in the London underworld. Four young hustlers go after the big time in a game of cards and find themselves in debt to the big man to the tune of half a million pounds. They have a week to pay or they start losing fingers...

A chance crossing of paths with several rival gangs finds our heroes with the opportunity to get themselves out of debt in the allotted time but also finds them in a world of trouble. Clever crafting of the script, with its bewildering array of entirely plausible sub-plots, leave the film with a final body count akin to "Where Eagles Dare"...but without any Clint Eastwood characters.

A word of warning though: many people, particularly those unfamiliar with the intricacies of irony and rhyming slang, will find this film extremely difficult to comprehend. This is British comedy at its best and it is really refreshing to see that the genre has survived the Trans-Atlantic kow-towing of attempts such as "A Fish Called Wanda".

Don't miss it.



Rating:
Summary: Fantastic and one of my favorites
Review: Fantastic film. The central four characters work best as an ensemble, which Ritchie realized, so the Gang of Four (as I like to call them) are pretty much together throughout the film when they are featured. Much of the acting is ensemble. There are individual performances that stand out to me, though, such as Jason Statham's rowdily uproarious portrayal of Bacon, Dexter Fletcher's finicky, knife-obsessed Soap, Vinnie Jones's brutal, yet extremely whimsical Big Chris, and Sting's cold and calculated JD. In particular, I love Vas Blackwood's hilariously nasty performance as "that madman with an Afro", Rory Breaker, as well as Frank Harper's ultimately terrifying and likely psychotic Dog, Steve Sweeney's vocally-sprained, to-the-hilt Cockneyisms as Plank, and an emaciated Steven Mackintosh's acidic, yet finally naive Winston. The plot's too much to explain here, but just see it and you'll get it. Great, great movie.