A flaming heap of excrement.

Rating: Null/10 (12 August 1999)

If you've ever seen Pulp Fiction, you know that it's an intelligent and groundbreaking movie that flipped the Zetigeist of big-Hollywood production in 1994. Guy Ritchie, in his completely overrated and overdone debut, takes everything that made Pulp Fiction a great film, rubbed poop on it, and rewrapped it with interesting-looking directorial maneuvers that belong not on the silver screen but instead are meant to flop around in the cesspools of MTV. No wonder Ritchie won MTV's "Best New Director" award -- he copied thousands of music video tricks in order to pull off this boring, confusing, and banal heist movie. It has terrible acting, awful and forgettable writing, and a storyline that meanders and, at best, serves only to cause more disappointment when a new "character" is introduced or one of the many goons gives his theories of life. All in all, I don't see why Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels got all the critical acclaim it did -- perhaps the critics are giving up on art and just looking for a neat use of slo-mo.
Says nothing, goes nowhere.