Excellent...spoilers ahead

Rating: Null/10 (31 December 2000)

"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" is a witty, exciting, and generally brilliant film. It has terrific dialogue, a great cast, and a plot that just doesn't quit. It's full of twists, turns, surprises, you name it.
The only thing it can be accurately compared to is the work of Quentin Tarantino. Specifically, "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction." Like "Reservoir Dogs" the movie's basic plot centers around a crime-gone-wrong. They have another element in common -- both finish things up through the "everybody dies" method. And like "Pulp Fiction," "Lock, Stock" is hilarious in its dead-on depictions of the absurdities of the gangster world. This is not to say that Guy Ritchie, the director, has ripped off Tarantino (though its certain Ritchie knew his work).
This movie is wickedly funny, full of action, great plot, excellent acting, top notch everything. Ritchie has made a real original here. Go see it now!