Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 Directed by Guy Ritchie
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A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere.
A fast paced British comedy about four friends who need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. Lots of British humor, off the wall characters, and a line up of unbelievable scenes put director Guy Ritchie on the map.
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Four likely lads get in over their loafs to the local kingpin babbling brook when they spy easy wonga to be made from a bit of a naomi on the ol' bladders. And would you adam and eve it, the john is fixed, the ken loaded, so now they're in loads of barney as they've only got a bubble to produce the sausage or face an unscheduled meeting and end up brown. It's a tufnell right from the scapa!
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You would never believe a British gangster comedy starring Vinnie Jones (!) would have become so successful and gain cult status overnight. But, then again, you are probably wrong.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is among the best British films ever made, seamlessly blending gangster movies clichés with fresh and funny predicaments for our somehow lovable leads. It follows a group of friends called Eddie (Nick Moran), ‘Tubby’ Tommy (Jason Flemyng on hilarious form), Bacon (Jason Statham, surprisingly watchable) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher, being an idiot) who lose out on all of their money to local gangster ‘Orrible Hatchet Harry’ (the little-known P.H Moriarty) in a card game. If they don’t pay it back by Friday, then Barry the…
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This is the film that literally changed my life. Before I saw it, I was a causal movie-watcher, mostly interested in romantic comedies and animated Disney classics. Then I saw this about six years ago and it blew my mind to smithereens. Since then, I've been chasing the original high this film gave me, and unlike with drugs, I've been able to achieve that high again and then some. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels never ceases to entertain me with the hilarious and meaningless dialogue, the ridiculous plot, and the bizarre stylistic choices of Guy Ritchie. I absolutely adore it, and even though I've just re-watched it, I want to watch it again!
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The only Ritchie movie I've previously seen is his 2009 take on Sherlock Holmes. It caught my interest because it seemed popular both in mainstream audiences and critic circles, but sadly it didn't really do anything for me. I'm still not convinced about that one, however, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is a mighty step-up. I'm usually not a big fan of this style of movie-making but in this everything seemed to just come together in a neatly packaged bag of fun. It won't stay with me for very long but I had a blast watching it and I may have to seek out more of Ritchie's filmography (although I've heard from plenty of people that this is his best…
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This is a Guy Ritchie film? Really? You don't say! Well now that's surprising because I can't at all see the resemblance to Snatch.
On a more serious note this film is incredibly similar to Guy Ritchie's other film Snatch, but in the best possible way. They use the same humour, violence, lots of the same actors, and it was great.
Some great performances by Jason Statham, Nick Moran, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones, Steven Mackintosh, Lenny McLean, and P.H. Moriarty.
The thing with Guy Ritchie's films is that they are always so damn confusing. There are so many different groups of people, but they all come together for an incredibly crazy and fabulous ending.
The plot in this…
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Until recently, i'd never seen a Guy Ritchie film and I can honestly say that his first two films(this and Snatch) are among the best films of the last 15 years. They are films of escapism with lots of cursing and bloodshed but they're just so well-made regardless of the subject matter. The fast moving dialogue, the humour, the twists, everything is done to sheer perfection and it results extremely fun and entertaining movies with actually very likeable characters. I'm in between giving this a 4.5/5 or 5/5 because it's just such a well-made movie. Though regardless of what I rate it, this is a movie I highly recommend to fans of cinema and the organised crime genre. Even more so than Snatch.
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Until recently, i'd never seen a Guy Ritchie film and I can honestly say that his first two films(this and Snatch) are among the best films of the last 15 years. They are films of escapism with lots of cursing and bloodshed but they're just so well-made regardless of the subject matter. The fast moving dialogue, the humour, the twists, everything is done to sheer perfection and it results extremely fun and entertaining movies with actually very likeable characters. I'm in between giving this a 4.5/5 or 5/5 because it's just such a well-made movie. Though regardless of what I rate it, this is a movie I highly recommend to fans of cinema and the organised crime genre. Even more so than Snatch.
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It is clear this is Guy Ritchie's first film for two reasons.
1)It is technically inadequate and amateurish
2)A story this funny, entertaining and undeniably British has to have come from Ritchie.
The film is fantastic, it shows you don't need a film education, or the perfect equipment to make a great film, just buckets and buckets of talent!
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I really like Guy Ritchie movies. I haven't quite figured out the attraction, but for some reason British crooks (or investigators) work really well for me under his direction.
I'd never seen this, his big breakthrough film, before so I decided to see if it was truly a classic. I didn't disappoint, although I'm sure I would have been much more blown away by it in 1998. Years of watching his follow up movies and other imitators has blunted the shock of this story.
Very much enjoyed nearly every character, and it was especially interesting to see how Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham started out.
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Classic Ritchie.
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Hibátlan feelgood gengszter film, korrekt lezárással.
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A fun over-the-top thriller starring incompetent thieves.
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This is a Guy Ritchie film? Really? You don't say! Well now that's surprising because I can't at all see the resemblance to Snatch.
On a more serious note this film is incredibly similar to Guy Ritchie's other film Snatch, but in the best possible way. They use the same humour, violence, lots of the same actors, and it was great.
Some great performances by Jason Statham, Nick Moran, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones, Steven Mackintosh, Lenny McLean, and P.H. Moriarty.
The thing with Guy Ritchie's films is that they are always so damn confusing. There are so many different groups of people, but they all come together for an incredibly crazy and fabulous ending.
The plot in this…
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Still smart, fresh, beautifully played and constructed all these years on. Also, still Guy Ritchie's best film which is kinda sad, though I guess it'd be hard to top.
So many things I love about this film: the London specific dialogue,on speed (e.g. Bacon's opening street hustler spiel or the subtitled Cockney rhyming slang bar scene where Rory Breaker gets his badass credentials outlined); the differentiated UK gangster landscape including the fact that it is very difficult to get hold of guns; the cleverly weaved narrative action structure; the soundtrack; the great characters - the full package.
I didn't really register the sepia toning of the whole feature until this viewing, but it definitely stuck out, in a good way, this time. Basically Lock, Stock... is one of those films that is well worth the occasional revisit.