More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game.
Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heroes decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.
A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere. Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality and drug content. Did you know Edit.
He died of lung cancer exactly one month before the films premiere. Goofs Eddy says that the two guns are the only thing that connects them to the events, but the shoot-out over the money and marijuana happened at their apartment, leaving a number of bodies. It is also unclear how the police never showed up after all of the shooting when the boys arrived later. Quotes Bacon : What's that? Samoan Joe's Barman : It's a cocktail.
You asked for a cocktail. Samoan Joe's Barman : You want a pint, you go to the pub. Samoan Joes Barman : It's a Samoan pub. Crazy credits In the closing credits, the character names in the cast list are shown entirely in lower-case letters with no initial capital letters. Alternate versions New footage included in director's cut: at the very start of film, Ed is shown explaining the rules of 3 Card Brag to two people; the scene where Big Chris goes to see the man on the sunbed is longer Tom, Soap and Bacon are shown walking through the pub to the bar while Ed is playing cards the earlier stages of the card game are shown Alan explains to Ed the "history" between JD and Harry when Barry is talking to the two scousers the dialogue is different when Big Chris is walking into Harry's office near the end, he meets the man who was on the sunbed near the start of the film.
User reviews Review. Top review. Have a butchers I was a total and complete sucker for this film. If I were to write and direct a movie about gangsters or crime, this would be it. I wouldn't change one damn thing. Not a thing. Everything in this film was, to my eye, perfect - casting, the camerawork, the excellent dialogue "It's been emotional. I've got a bunch of these on my queue to rent, but I doubt you could make a crime film better than this.
This film oozes with style, class, dark humor, plot twists and turns, and doesn't drag one bit. The casting and characterization is perfect, and Ritchie isn't afraid to move the cameras around; no pretense is really made here at "realism" - Ritchie doesn't mask the fact that it's a film and he runs with it.
To the very end, the movie manages to be unpredictable, and it never loses its sense of humor. Many caper comedies have a tendency to run out of steam before the final act; that isn't the case here, and the coup de grace is impeccable.
When it comes to characters, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels boasts no fewer than 22 significant roles. Many of the actors are not recognizable faces. In fact, a few of them are making their motion picture debuts. For the most part, everyone does a solid job essaying one of the various inept thugs or criminals. Those familiar with the British soap "Eastenders" will find that any of the characters from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels would fit into the neighborhood of Albert Square with little difficulty.
Ritchie's style is direct and accomplished. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels keeps moving; it's kinetic, in-your-face filmmaking. This may be the first movie to capture the reckless exuberance of Pulp Fiction without seeming like a blatant rip-off. With memorable witticisms sprinkled throughout, the dialogue is at least as clever as the plot structure. For example, one character remarks that he expected an easy job not "a bad day in Bosnia. It's a superior thriller made with the guts and gusto that too many recycled entries into the genre fail to exhibit.
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