Doesn't include the Amp

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 2000)

While this can't seem to decide whether its a comedy or a thriller perhaps that doesn't matter because its a cracking film with great pace and humour and a bloody convoluted Jacobean plot. I loved the camera tricks which so annoyed others (I particularly liked the sceen introducing Soap with a saucepan shot from below) and the grainy stock.
With no great stars (save perhaps Vinie Jones who for our oversea readers was a very big football [i.e. soccer] star before taking up acting) the cast is spot on. I believe that there is only one female speaking role (the croupier) and only two female roles all told, which must be a record of some sort these days.
Brits and Aussies (the Oz accent being an extension of cockney) won't have problems with the accents but for goodness sake Americans, more English speakers live outside the US than in it and we've struggled for years with heavy New York or Southern US accents without complaint. I've never understood what Blanche in the Golden Girls was on about for instance and the Dukes of Hazzard only became intelligible when we got teletext sub-titles about 20 years ago.
Yes, the are superfical likeness to a number of films and the ending is a bit of a rip off from the Italian Job, but hey, this hung together very well even so. And in the last scene, which is actually set on Battersea Bridge in London, you can see my flat in the background...........
9 out of 10 from me. Can't wait for the next Guy Ritchie with Vinnie again and Brad Pitt.