The cast is comprised of mostly young, veteran, male actors. Set entirely in a fantasy East End where women almost don't exist and shot through a drunken haze, it creates a world related to reality and to old crime movies but also self-contained and original. A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns. Big Chris: It's been emotional. Written and directed by talented newcomer Guy Ritchie, this is one of those movies that was destined to become an instant cult classic à la Reservoir Dogs.
The film brought Ritchie international acclaim and introduced actors Jones, a former international , and Statham, a former , to worldwide audiences. The way in which he handles violence and action appealed to me. All promotional material including but not limited to trailers, images, logo's and videos are all copyright to their respective owners. I also liked the movie's sense of fun. The lads are required to hand over half-a-million quid by the end of the week or suffer the attentions of Harry's debt-collectors, a bald head-dunker called Barry The Baptist bare knucks champ Lenny McLean and the fearsome but paternal Big Chris football hard man Vinnie Jones. You're after from 2000 with Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law and Ray Winstone.
Read more about locked posts. In fact, the only female in the film doesn't even speak, though she handles a machine gun fairly well. The humor is incredibly sharp yet 'as a matter of fact'. If I were to write and direct a movie about gangsters or crime, this would be it. Well, this seems to be a complete waste of my time. Full of quirky vernacular and clever tension-packed action sequences, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a triumph--a perfect blend of intelligence, humor, and suspense. See it once, then see it again to see what you missed.
You never know what's gonna fall out of my head onto the page. He staggers outside and is leaning against a garage door or some wall, and wincing from the pain, then fade to black. Seeing it again recently, I found the dialogue easier to understand, and the labyrinthine plot became a little clearer--although it's designed to fold back upon itself with unexpected connections. We were aware of what was going on but there was no Tarantino-esq splatter-fest. You wont see any reflective glass laden sky scrapers here, or 'over head city shots', or incredible special effects.
It's all been replaced by a pile of corpses. This version of the film contains more of each of the characters' backstories, and runs at a total time of 120 minutes. In his debut feature film, director-writer Guy Ritchie weaves a tangled web of shady, blithely eccentric characters and several storylines, all of them coming together in a gleeful explosion of murder and mayhem. If I were to write and direct a movie about gangsters or crime, this would be it. It always hits the mark for me!.
After both thefts, the number of interested criminal parties increases, with the four friends in dangerously over their heads. Rory threatens Nick into giving him Eddy's address, and brings along one of the growers, Winston, to identify the robbers. A great soundtrack also adds to the atmosphere with some very effective use of popular songs from all over the place. Ritchie's film is a much more involved, complex, layered work than the aforementioned comparisons. And you're haggling over one hundred pound? Meanwhile, Dog's crew accidentally learns that their neighbours are the ones who robbed them, and set up an ambush in Eddy's flat.
So, while Harry sends a couple of petty crooks to steal a pair of antique shotguns to add to his collection, Eddy and his mates plan a caper that will enable them to pay off Harry and make out like bandits! Nick the Greek: All right all right, keep your Alans on! Maybe it could be called a satire on true life. NetflixReleases is an unofficial site for Netflix fans. Let's sort the buyers from the spyers, the needy from the greedy, and those who trust me from the ones who don't, because if you can't see value here today, you're not up here shopping. It really does it a disservice because this film really is its own phenomenon and stands on its own two feet; if anything it is similar to Trainspotting and Tarantino films only because it actually has its own bold style. While the pals scheme to make the money, Harry indulges his penchant for valuable antique shot guns, stolen for him by a couple of inept burglars. Eddy and his friends spend the night at Eddy's father's bar to celebrate.
I don't like gratuitous violence. The movie, which is an enormous hit in Britain, had its American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where I lost track of the plot and some of the dialogue. Eddie: Err, bad breath, colourful language, feather duster. The movie is about a poker player named Eddy , who is bankrolled by three friends for a high-stakes game with Hatchet Harry P. Eddy and his mates eavesdrop on neighbors in the next flat--criminals who are planning to rob a rich drug dealer. A man on fire comes staggering out of the door. I've got a bunch of these on my queue to rent, but I doubt you could make a crime film better than this.
Winston leaves with the drugs; Dog leaves with the two shotguns and the money but is waylaid by Big Chris, who knocks him out and takes everything. His energetic, ultra-contemporary camera work incorporates through a fresh perspective such devices as slow motion, fast motion, and freeze-frame coupled with narration. The plot is a complex collision of several sets of crooked characters. They look at him curiously, shrug, and go in. Tighter than a duck's butt you are.
Like music videos, it is all non-stop movement and sound. Dean: He's got the guns. While Eddy plays poker, for example, his three friends go next door to a pub. I really don't think of myself as easily impressed, and I have seen a hell of a lot of films in my time, but this one instantly made my Top 10 after only a single viewing. Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels is too mixed-up to synopsise easily and too rickety to think about closely, but it gets plenty of laughs as it rushes from scene to scene. Although some comparisons were drawn between Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino, it would be unfair to discount the brilliant wit of the story and the innovative camerawork that the director brings to his debut feature. Then it fades in again, still there, still in pain, fade to black.