Rocking and rolling little timewaster

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 2003)

A young card sharp loses heavily in a crooked game and has to find a way of paying his debts or else....
Forget the plot, this is just an excuse to bring together a lot of British character actors (no future stars - but all ok) and crib bits and pieces of other peoples movies. Quentin Tarantino's early efforts being the most prominent. However it is done with far too much pace, sharp/cruel humour and rock music bombast for the MTV bred audience not to lap it up.

This is, amazingly, Guy Richies first film and credit to him for trying something with ambition. Also great to see what you can get done on a small budget and a couple of cheap back street sets (colour filters help disguise what they are!) He couldn't even afford the video playback system that most film makers use nowadays.
He later went on to write and direct Snatch, which is basically the same product,but in much improved and expanded form. Nevertheless a very entertaining time waster and a real solid start for a director whose talents and depths are, as yet, unknown.