The only film I have ever hated

Rating: Null/10 (30 March 1999)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is the most appalling film I have ever had the misfortune to see. It is 105 minutes of macho shaping and people trying to look cool as they headbutt other people. Most of the comments here seem to compare it favourably with Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction and the like. These are great films which Lock Stock... does not deserve a comparison to....the reason films like Reservoir Dogs get away with their amorality is that you are not expected to sympathize with or judge the characters. In Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels you are clearly expected to take the side of some of the cliched yobs which are passed off as characters in this monstrosity. Also the films lacks any of the style, wit, originality, ingenuity or charisma of anything by Tarantino or Scorsese. I had never actually hated a film before I saw this macho, laddish rubbish. Someone should just tell them they're not hard and get it over with...do yourself a favour and watch Pulp Fiction again; it's a million times better than this excuse for a film 0/10