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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

7.9

56,518

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Original title: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Year: 1998
Running time: 106 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Guy Ritchie
Screenwriter: Guy Ritchie
Music: Varios
Cinematography: Tim Maurice-Jones
Cast: Nick Moran, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, Steven Mackintosh, Frank Harper, Lenny McLean, Vinnie Jones, Sting, P.H. Moriarty, Stephen Marcus, Vas Blackwood
Producer: Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Genre: Thriller | Crime. Mafia. Black Comedy. Neo-noir. Heist Film. Cult Movie
Synopsis / Plot: 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 guns, stolen for him by a couple of inept burglars. Soon the missing guns, a paranoid group of marijuana growers, a mean-spirited debt collector (Vinnie Jones) and his young son, and a violent bunch of thugs, are all thrown together in this story.

Awards: 1998: 2 Nominations for BAFTA Awards: Best British Film and Editing

1998: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): 4 Nominations including Best Movie

Critics' reviews

"'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)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"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."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"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."

Derek Elley: Variety
"Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high."

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"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."

Lisa Alspector: Chicago Reader
"It's a hilarious, highly entertaining heist romp (...) The acting, mostly by a bunch of unknowns, is equally fresh and funny"

Joshua Klein: AV Club
"Loaded with devilishly hip camerawork and a driving soundtrack, 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' is bloody fun."

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