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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

1998

Guy Ritchie

Nick Moran, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher ...

7.8

62,490

Thriller When streetwise charmer Eddy (Nick Moran), the son of steely bar owner JD (Sting), botches a gambling scheme with his dad’s nemesis, porn king Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), he’s got one week to come up with 500,000 pounds or he loses his fingers--and so do his friends Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). While the pals scheme to make the money, Harry indulges his penchant for valuable antique shot ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'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 (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Ritchie's colour-desaturated style, use of unusual background music, scattershot slang (...) and mostly tasteful black comedy give the whole film the feel of an altered state of perception (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The punchy little flourishes that load this English gangster film with attitude are perfectly welcome, because there's no honest, substantial part of the movie they can hurt."	NEU
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"With visual style to spare (...) [It] lacks nothing in energy (...) It falls, however, some way short of its script ambitions, relying increasingly on plot twists and outre violence to sustain pacing and interest."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high."	POS
United States	Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"This movie blends extremes of violence and humor to create an irreverent tone that nullifies everything; the plot is so clever it crushes the characterization, making all the action seem perfunctory."	NEU
United Kingdom	John Ferguson Radio Times	"[It] has a youthful exuberance that's truly infectious. The superb cast is spiced up with the presence of celebrities such as Sting (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joshua Klein AV Club	"It's a hilarious, highly entertaining heist romp (...) The acting, mostly by a bunch of unknowns, is equally fresh and funny"	POS
United States	Entertainment Weekly	"Loaded with devilishly hip camerawork and a driving soundtrack, 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' is bloody fun."	POS

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