Snatch
SNATCH (18)
D: Guy Ritchie
Columbia/Ska (Matthew Vaughn)
UK/US 2000
103 mins
Crime/Comedy
W: Guy Ritchie
DP: Tim Maurice-Jones
Ed: John Harris & Les Healey
Mus: John Murphy
Jason Statham (Turkish), Stephen Graham
(Tommy), Brad Pitt (Mickey), Alan Ford (Brick Top), Benicio Del Toro (Franky Four-Fingers), Vinnie Jones (Bullet Tooth Tony)
Various groups of London gangsters and Irish travellers
try to steal a diamond back from an American jewel thief.
Guy Ritchie's follow up to Lock, Stock & Two Smoking
Barrels is practically cut from the same cloth with many of the same actors playing virtually the same characters. However, the screen lights up whenever Brad Pitt appears, playing an
unintelligible, bare-knuckle-fighting Irish gypsy.
The film proved hugely popular, especially on British
soil, but there's plenty of other crime capers which are far better.
6/10
