Snatch (2001)
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73% of critics liked it
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92% of users liked it
(349,889 ratings)
Guy Ritchie's sophomore follow-up to his 1998 sleeper hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch revisits the previous film's territory of London's crime-ridden underbelly, and does so with the same brand of humor and stylish direction that made Ritchie's first effort a… More Guy Ritchie's sophomore follow-up to his 1998 sleeper hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch revisits the previous film's territory of London's crime-ridden underbelly, and does so with the same brand of humor and stylish direction that made Ritchie's first effort a surprise success. With a labyrinthine plot that is ostensibly oriented around a missing diamond, Snatch introduces viewers to three groups of characters intent on retrieving the elusive stone, which has been stolen from an Antwerp jeweler. In the first group are friends and business partners Turkish (Jason Statham, who also supplies the film's voice-over narration) and Tommy (Stephen Graham), who join up with Mickey (Brad Pitt), an Irish gypsy and boxer. Turkish and Tommy make arrangements with Mickey to take a fall in a match engineered by lunatic gang leader Brick Top (Alan Ford). In another corner resides equally loony Russian gangster Boris the Blade (Rade Sherbedgia), who has asked Jewish gangster Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) to place a bet on the match for him. Boris is also scheming to have Sol (Lennie James), the owner of a pawn shop, rob the place with a couple of dim associates. Meanwhile, Avi (Dennis Farina), freshly arrived in London from New York, hires Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to find Franky when he goes missing; it seems that it was none other than Franky who was supposed to be transporting the purloined diamond to New York. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
- Directed By
- Guy Ritchie
- Written By
- Guy Ritchie
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jan 19, 2001 Wide
- On DVD
- Jul 3, 2001
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Ritchie may be skilled at generating controlled chaos, but his surprise-a-minute strategy ultimately holds no surprises.
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Wally Hammond, Time Out
Ritchie's follow-up to Lock, Stock is an even more craftily concocted underworld entertainment, helped no end by the casting of Pitt as the bare-knuckle boxer Mickey.
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Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
This may be one of the hazardous offshoots of the music-video-trained generation of moviemakers; they confuse a diet of eye candy with a full meal.
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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Bouncing around in a world of bare-knuckle boxing, gypsy swindlers, pretend Jewish diamond merchants, indestructible Russian assassins and a thug who disposes of bodies by feeding them to hungry pigs, Snatch has enough plots for a fair-sized cemetery.
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Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
He's not breaking new ground with Snatch, merely fine-tuning the knack for disreputable kicks he showed in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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Cast
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Benicio Del Toro
as Franky Four Fingers
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Dennis Farina
as Avi
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Vinnie Jones
as Bullet Tooth Tony
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Brad Pitt
as Mickey O'Neil
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Jason Statham
as Turkish
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Alan Ford
as Brick Top
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Rade Serbedzija
as Boris 'The Blade' Yurinov
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Robbie Gee
as Vinny
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Lennie James
as Sol
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Ewen Bremner
as Mullet
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Jason Flemyng
as Darren
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Stephen Graham
as Tommy
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Adam Fogerty
as Gorgeous George
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Mike Reid
as Doug the Head
- Dean Smith
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