A terrific gangster-comedy.

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2005)

Guy Ritchie has a special talent for these film types as i discovered when i viewed the equally good Snatch. Lock, Stock... is a bit more stylish than Snatch, and the end sequence was filmed on Battersea bridge! ( the exclamation mark is there for people like me who have walked across the bridge many times without even realising) The film is quite offensive in parts, but is still a masterpiece of a film. The plot is a group of 5 friends save up enough money to play cards with "Mr Big" Harry Lonsdale, however, the game is rigged and after borrowing money off of Harry he has 1 week to pay him back or he gets his fingers cut off! That night, as the friends squabble amongst themselves, Eddie hears his neighbours planning a robbery of weed and shoeboxes full of money, so they decide, in order to get the money, they simply rob the robbers. Things go fine - or at least thats what they think. The weed they took belonged to a deadly gang lead by a crazy junkie who's lunacy is told in brilliant cockney-rhyming slang flashback that is subtitled. This leads to a right kerfuffle as everyone is killing each other - literally! a great film 10 out of 10.