Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 1999)

If I only had one word to describe this film, I would choose "brilliant". Not because it is going to change my life, or because I've discovered some nebulous truths about humanity, but because I enjoyed myself while in the cinema. Why should a film make you think and ponder and cry anyway? It seems to me that movies that go for these responses, and particularly for the crying bit, are usually the province of a bunch of arrogant and presumptuous directors out to control other people. Lock, Stock and 2SB is an honestly funny and amusing film. Without pretension it managed to make my night after a hard day of study go by a little better. For that, it deserves, and I gave it, a ten.