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Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham

Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.

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R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Directed by: Guy Ritchie

Release Date: March 5, 1999

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  • stopitgoaway
    September 26, 2009
    stopitgoaway
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is set in London where four close friends Eddie (Nick Moran), Bacon (Jason Statham), Tom (Jason Flemying) & Soap (Dezter Fletcher) all chip in £25,000 to make up the £100,000 entrance fee to a big high stakes poker game held by hard as nails vi...( read more)llain & crime boss 'Hatchet' Harry Lonsdale (P.H. Moriarty). Eddie is an expert poker player & figures he can make each of them a clear £100,00 profit, if they play their cards right (ha!). Unfortunately 'Hatchet' Harry doesn't like losing & cheats, Eddie not only loses the £100,000 but actually ends up owing 'Hatchet' Harry £500,000 after borrowing it from him to continue in the game. 'Hatchet' Harry is not the sort of person you owe money to, Eddie & his friends must find a way to raise a half a million pounds in the next four days or start losing their fingers...

    This English production was written & directed by Guy Ritchie & has already deservedly reached pretty much classic status, in fact it still resides in the IMDb's top 250 films list over ten years since it was originally released & for me it throughly deserves to be there. It's just a wonderfully entertaining, witty, funny, clever British crime caper with bags of personality & at the time it was made originality although in the ten years since it was released many a British film has ripped it off trying to recreate it's success. There are a few things which make Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels so brilliant. First it's just so funny, I have seen Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels several times now & I laugh my head off every time, the really funny dialogue, the spot on performances, the hilarious one liners, the use of funny cockney rhyming slang & the things which happen along with the often bizarre situations the character's find themselves in means there isn't a scene that goes by where something funny doesn't happen or there isn't some instantly quotable insult or one liner. Secondly the character's are great, they have real depth & the good guy's are very likable so you root for them while the bad guy's are real nasty pieces of work so as a consequence you don't root for them, just the way it should be. Then there's the plot which at the time was fresh, new, original, clever, witty, full of great twists & turns & there's certainly plenty going on which rather improbably all come together at the end in a somewhat far fetched way but when a film is as entertaining, clever & downright funny as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels you just tend to go with it. A brilliantly funny British comedy crime caper, one of my favourite films ever & it's as simple & straight forward as that.

    Director Ritchie really injects some style, pace & energy into the film with various tricks which never become gimmicky or intrusive & only help tell a brilliantly story with style, originality & panache. Not only did Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels revolutionise the British crime caper genre with it's story telling but it has also influenced plenty of films since with it's slick editing & visual techniques. There's a fantastic soundtrack too, I really can't think of one bad thing to say about Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which is pretty high praise in itself as I am not easily pleased. There's a fair amount of violence but nothing overly graphic & a lot of it is played for laughs as is the bad language & profanity of which there is a lot. In fact I don't there is a single scene which doesn't involve the use of strong language at some point.

    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels had a budget of about £960,000 which is simply amazing, a film this good & this stylish for less than a million? Shot on location in & around London Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels were the film debuts of both ex footballer Vinnie Jones & Jason Statham who have both done very well off the back of it. During the final credits the film is dedicated to ex bare knuckle fighter Lenny McClean who played Barry the Baptist & who died of cancer shortly before the film premiered. The acting is great from all involved, there's boyish charm to downright menacing criminal unpleasantness.

    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a brilliantly funny, witty, clever & entertaining British crime caper that is a true genre great & one of my own personal favourite films ever. Ritchie followed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels up with the equally brilliant British crime caper Snatch (2000) a couple of years later.
  • SirPant
    September 16, 2009
    SirPant
    This is not a great British film, its crap like this that damage the British film industry in my opinion. It's full of dodgy accents and represents no one who actually lives in London. It's only saving grace is some rather good cinematography.
  • EarthlyAlien
    January 21, 2009
    EarthlyAlien
    "Lock, stock, the fuckin' lot."

    When Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels came out a decade ago, it was already a tremendous hit in its native England. Irreverent, violent and wickedly clever, Guy Ritchie's turbo-charged debut is a wild, kinetic take on the traditio...( read more)nal caper film, one that takes the conventions of the genre and gives them a decidedly UK twist - Johnny Rotten circa 1977 couldn't have directed a more joyously obnoxious bit of tomfoolery.

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    With a plot as convoluted as the East-Ender accents that pepper the production (as in Trainspotting, subtitles are sporadically necessary here), Ritchie and a spot-on cast of mostly newcomers steamroll through the proceedings at a cool 210 kilometers per second. At least that's what it seems like, given the director's penchant for including presumably every one of his stylistic tricks within the frame (and frequently within the same shot - slow motion, speeded-up action, skewed angles, bizarre opticals, and anything else he can think of).

    The story centers around four London friends - Eddie (Nick Moran), Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Stratham), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher) - who go in on an illegal card game hoping to double their money. Unbeknownst to ringer Eddie, the game is rigged, and he not only loses the group's initial investment, but he also ends up owing cantankerous crime boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty) an extra 500,000 pounds. With Harry's vicious debt collector Big Chris (Vinnie Jones, making his acting debut, at 33, when he was still playing football for Wimbledon F.C.) on their tail, not to mention the entirely evil, disturbingly silent Barry the Baptist (Lenny McLean), the boys have to raise the offending amount or end up floating face down in the drink.

    Any number of sub-plots litter Ritchie's film like shell casings: The boys' next-door neighbours, led by the spotty, dotty Winston (Steven Mackintosh), fancy themselves world-class drug dealers (they're far too high on ganja to get much work done, though) and scheme to rip off local kingpin Rory Breaker (Vas Blackwood), while Barry the Baptist is off on his own mission to secure a pair of antique hunting rifles for his boss. Add to that flashbacks, flash-forwards, and any number of one-off gags, and what you come up with is a film almost too British to swallow without the aid of a frothy pint of lager.

    For all its impenetrable rhyming slang, though, Lock, Stock is a breathtaking debut that recalls the hyperstylized violence of Tarantino melded with the classic British caper comedies of Ealing Studios. With such a frenetic, brain-melting load of images to ponder, it's easy to forget that there are also some terrific actors at work here, not the least of whom is the amazing Vinnie Jones. As Big Chris, he's not only a deadly, leather-jacketed killer in the service of the Bad Guys, but also a devoted dad who brings his young son, Little Chris, along for every round of GBH. It's these kinds of heartwarming touches that nail Ritchie and Lock, Stock as two shivs in a gullet, violent visionaries with audacious, outrageous senses of humour as well.
  • Gx7
    December 23, 2008
    Gx7
  • DrZeek
    November 9, 2008
    DrZeek
    John: Ah! Shit! I've been shot!
    Dog: I don't fuckin' believe this, can everyone stop gettin' shot.

    The first movie from Guy Ritchie. It mixes the cult classic qualities from a Tarantino movie with the music video editing style of today's flashy videos.

    It is filled with the d...( read more)ry, dialog driven English-styled humor and a healthy dose of cockney slang as well as dark comedy involving incompetent criminals.

    Eddie: They're armed.
    Soap: What was that? Armed? What do you mean armed? Armed with what?
    Eddie: Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster... what do you think they're gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!

    This movie also introduced the world to Jason "The Transporter" Statham and Vinnie "Bullet Tooth Tony" Jones, the large brute.

    Gary: Shotguns? What, like guns that fire shot?
    Barry the Baptist: Oh, you must be the brains of the operation. Yes, guns that fire shot.

    The story surrounds a group of friends who pool a bunch of money together, hoping to win more at an exclusive poker table with a mobster, only to become in his debt for a lot of money.

    The boys now have to go through a number of lengths to get enough money to pay back the mobster.

    Tom: There's no money, there's no weed. It's all been replaced by a pile of corpses.

    Meanwhile, various other characters enter in and out of the story, providing plenty of interesting twists along the way.

    Rory Breaker: If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya. If you bend the truth or I think your bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anything I'll kill ya. In fact, you're gonna have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick.

    The movie is, of course, very similar to Ritchie's follow up movie, Snatch, with few differences. What I would have to say distinguishes them is that 'Lock, Stock' has more of a driven narrative, than Snatch, with a clear way of how the story needs to flow.

    Speaking of it's flow, the movie is paced very nicely, with, as I mentioned, a very slick use of the camera throughout, complete with one of my favorite soundtracks and themed riffs for the different groups of characters.

    The darkly ironic ways that the movie wraps itself up makes it's completely satisfying ending all the more funny, with even the possibility of sequels *wink*.

    Eddie: The entire British empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going to war without one, mate, you're mistaken.

    Its a wonderful gangster comedy, featuring a flashy visual style given its low budget, a lot of quotable dialog, and a sweet soundtrack.

    Big Chris: One more thing, It's been emotional.
  • gazzbizz
    October 30, 2009
    gazzbizz
    what a funny film and a great pace
  • HateYouIgnorant
    October 29, 2009
    HateYouIgnorant
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • ahhh1989
    October 27, 2009
    ahhh1989
    One of the funniest films ever. The story is excellent, the characters are funny and memorable, and the ending is one of the best endings to a film I've ever seen. See it today!
  • mfou88
    October 25, 2009
    mfou88
    i like the way of the camera motion in the British movies.
  • martinhiggins
    October 23, 2009
    martinhiggins
    All Guy Ritchie films are classics well produced great acting with great humor.

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Critic Reviews

March 19, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

The best one can say is that it's a smart cartoon, and a fairly exhausting viewing experience. full review

June 5, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Lock, Stock is fun, in a slapdash way; it has an exuberance, and in a time when movies follow formulas like zombies, it's alive. full review

January 1, 2000
David Edelstein, Slate

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is the laborious title of an even more laborious Cockney action movie. full review

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Comments

  • IRONMANBLAST
    March 29, 2008
    IRONMANBLAST
    More Like Snatch is like this This came out far before Snatch
  • Juliaanna
    November 9, 2007
    Juliaanna
    This is one of the funniest movies Ive ever seen! >^.^<
  • jbpelican
    August 25, 2006
    jbpelican
    This movie proclaims itself as a real comedy, but when i first watched it I found that i was enthralled more by the seething underworld these men live in. Having said that its still got some bloody funny parts in it. Watch it, its great.

    Justins Best Bit: "What the hell is that?!"

    "Its me Brim Gun!"
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