We've got to get those guns

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2004)

This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Great characters, great story, great cinematography, great dialogue, great soundtrack, very believable and all the rest... a real pleasure to watch. I gave it a 10.
I'm an American, but I have visited London and the East End several times, so the accents were a little difficult, but not enough to be a problem.
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Having already spouted glowing comments about this film, let me say that I have only one minor issue with it... several times I noted things that I thought were mistakes, but were not. Many have mentioned them here before, but I'll repeat a few. (note: these are obviously not an issue imho)
Q1: Right after Eddie loses the Three Card Brag game with Harry, Barry the Baptist grabs Eddie outside and tells him he expects the money in a week from Eddie and his friends. The problem is... it couldn't have been but a few minutes later, and Barry wasn't at the game, so how did he know so fast that Eddie had lost unless he was secretly watching them play?
A1: Well, Eddie must have figured that since they all had cell phones Harry must have called Barry at some time since he lost the game. Probably when we didn't see Harry (he was off camera) for a few minutes immediately after Eddie lost (he zombied around a while with cool camera angles and music).
Q2: How did Barry know Harry's hand was better than Eddie's (Barry said, "We'll take you to the cleaners.")?
A2: Barry couldn't see Harry's cards (the cheating mechanism only worked one way -- to tell Harry), but it's probably not too hard to believe that Eddie's hand was so bad for 3 Card Brag that Barry instinctively knew that Harry would do better.
Q3: Why did Big Chris take the money from Dog?
A3: As already mentioned here, Big Chris had never seen the guys and had just happened upon Dog as he was coming from the place that was the guys' address. This is also proved because he tells Hatchet Harry, "One of the boys had'em." When Harry asked him about the shotguns.
Q4: How did Big Chris know Dog's name when he was slamming the door on Dog's head? (Big Chris was screaming and yelling, "Never, never, never, has anyone been as rude to me as you, Dog! F@!%king, bastard!"
A4: Big Chris could have learned Dog's name on the short trip over to Harry's. We just don't know for sure, but it's possible.
Now here's my only issue with film, and it's rather minor and I'd be happy to read any dissenting views or different interpretations and opinions... everything the characters did were very believable and understandable because we'd do the same thing if we were in their shoes except for one...
Q4: Why did they party at the pub after ripping off their neighbors?
This has no answer because when I put myself in their shoes, especially Eddie's, I would not want a second to pass without first settling the debt with Harry. They had no idea if they would be robbed, or if Dog would find them, and so they (or Eddie) should have immediately marched over to Harry's and settled the debt. No partying. No delay.
Now, if someone says that they had to wait until Harry, Barry, or Chris came looking for them, I don't think that holds water because Eddie called Harry shortly after the money went missing.
Another few positive comments then, "I'm off." I really liked the Gary and Dean characters (the Liverpool scousers) a lot and wish there could be an entire film with just them on their escapades. Hence the summary title, "We've got to get those guns."
Also, SNATCH was good, but I didn't like it as much as LOCK. Also, for years I've felt that QT was waaaay overrated. I saw all of his films and the guy uses violence for shock purposes and little else. When I saw PULP I thought it was no big deal. Contrived and unbelievable. With LOCK, even Vinnie Jones in his DVD interview said, that what was being portrayed could really happen.
Further, the intensity of the scene where Big Chris (presumably) kills Dog is so great that I think someone was asking for other examples of it. One that I can think of is in the movie ERIN BROCKOVICH where the husband of the character (I think the name is Donna Jensen, but not sure) learns of his wife's breast cancer and is extremely upset outside facing the factory. BRAVEHEART had a few too as I recall and the opening of CARLITO'S WAY was quite well done.