Fed up with Tarantino comparisons

Rating: 9/10 (25 August 2000)

Why is it that any modern film that is slightly avant garde and contains more than one plot is instantly compared to a Tarantino production? Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a highly original film, as are Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but that's where the similarities end.
Please give writer / director Guy Ritchie and Producer Trudie Styler (Mrs Sting to you) the credit they deserve for this entertaining, humourous, violent, parody of East-end London gangster life and boys just trying to make some dosh the easy way.
Because of it's multiple plots and twists, this is a film that you have to pay attention to, or watch twice to get the bits you missed. The photography is fantastic, with the sepia look adding to the atmosphere of the film. The music, being a blend of classic James Brown soul to modern day Ocean Colour Scene and others also compliments the action.
For all the non-British views, you'd better brush up on your Cockney Rhyming Slang too, although one scene does includes sub-titles because even the Brits don't understand it!
Not for the children or people with an aversion to overly violent films, but most people should find it a worth while experience.