A comedy of catastrophes!

Rating: 7/10 (23 January 2014)

If you love crime stories that are cleverly contrived to yield ever more jolting twists and turns, you'll love this film. Crude, violent, and complex, this rogue's gallery filled with self-destructive fools and idiots is an endless romp through the seedy world of London criminals.
This film is an excellent reason to stay straight for survival's sake. There are so many ways to wind up either maimed or dead presented in this story that just watching it makes you glad you're an honest stiff who lives far from all this lunacy!
Don't miss the chance to hear Jason Stratham engage in more fast, clever verbal banter than he will probably ever do again in any film.
The most impressive roles, IMHO, are played by Lenny McLean and Vinnie Jones, who both steal every scene they appear in as Hatchet Harry's money collection thugs. McLean and Jones are both scary just to look at with just enough balance between menace and quirkiness to make them curiously endearing.
The four lead characters are actually rather weak and unsympathetic over all. But there is so much non-stop poop hitting the fan that we get caught up in the sheer mayhem of each successively more intensely absurd scene.
A crime classic!