i liked it

Rating: Null/10 (14 January 2002)

I've read some of the previous comments on this page and find some of them particularly unfair. One being Americans not being able to understand or appreciate our accent - well its the accent that makes the jokes funny, also do we complain about a strong accent in american films? No! It would be nice for US people to look at cultures outside their own. Also some have ridiculed the films editing and camera style. Well there is a way other than your bog-standard high concept mass appeal cash-ins.
I saw Lock Stock way before Snatch and it was so good to see a decent British gangster film given the state the last few years had been. It seems that most of the reviewers only saw the film recently and since then it has lost its freshness. When I saw Snatch, although I very much liked it as a film in its own right, I thought it was just a poorer version of lock stock made with a higher budget. Lock Stock, for a first film in particular is quick, snappy, gritty, funny and best of all none of this soppy sentimental crap that you get in so many of todays films.