Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Nick Moran, Steven Mackintosh

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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  • middleeasternfilms
    December 3, 2009
    middleeasternfilms
    Have you seen Snatch and RocknRolla? Then you no doubt started out with this film. Guy's movies are all pretty much the same, which isn't always a bad thing if you're really into the British gangster thing. He's a supreme dialogue writer, maybe second only to Tarantino and his fi...( read more)lms are never boring but they may get a bit old if he stays on track like this.
  • 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
  • pulpspy
    December 7, 2009
    pulpspy
    Clever, witty, well shot, and a masterful plot. Richie's best.
  • MovieGuruDude72
    December 5, 2009
    MovieGuruDude72
    Before Madonna stole Guy Ritchie's testicles he made delightfully violent and mirthy British gangster flicks like this. Great dialogue, script and camera work. Fresh and entertaining. We are introduced into the cinematic value of former soccer thug Vinnie Jones and a very, very y...( read more)oung pre-stardom Jason Statham and, yes, that's Sting playing Nick Moran's pissed off father. While watching this film notice the plot that originally looks as thin as paper only to evolve into a mixed-up bag of chaotic moments. Notice the nuances of the director's ability to cut from scene to scene in a really cool, but non-annoying and plot-interrupting way. Notice the artistic grainy-ness of everything and notice the superb camera work and plethora of interesting characters. Even the speechless stoner girl who lies on the couch and produces a 60-caliber anti-aircraft gun out of thin air provides the best scene in the entire film. One of my favorite characters is the black pot dealer who, politely, catches guys on fire because they ask him to turn the channel from a soccer game in a pub. Makes you glad you don't live in London if you're a sports fan! Only outdone by Ritchie's later film, Snatch. A must-have if you consider yourself macho.
  • MightySparks
    November 28, 2009
    MightySparks
    I love pretty much anything that comes out of the UK, but this was horrible. The acting was some of the worst I've ever seen, it wasn't funny and it was just so goddamn boring. The only reason I rated it higher than half a star was because I discovered the song 'Liar, Liar', whic...( read more)h was my favourite song for a month or so after watching it.
  • Phonex
    November 26, 2009
    Phonex
    Nice comedy. Several London gangs are together. One by one , what a comedy. SOHO life is not bad. I liked very much, BUT bank job, Italian job, Brazilian job, Moscow job. Oh la la. TOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH.

    THE UK, plase calm down. specially Jason Statham.

    There is long queue. Wo...( read more)wwwwwwwwwwwww.
  • KESSLER72
    November 26, 2009
    KESSLER72
    this flick is a fucking kick ass riot!!
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