Lock on, take stock, and prepare for a big hit actioner of laughs, in barrels .

Rating: 8/10 (16 May 2014)

Like Trainspotting, Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrel retains it's own style. Sometimes the proof is in the pudding. Most of the Director's first pics are the best. They can't be topped. This is definitely the case here. This is better than Snitch, where later, that Raspberry winner/Swept Away, hit the screen. After seeing it on t.v. I turned off ten minutes after seeing it. Frankly that movie reel should of been swept away. But back on LSATSB. We have a card game gone to s..t where our four buddies, pommy losers, owe big time, and we can't help feeling sympathy for their predicament. Through the very thin walls of their squalor, they hear some bad dudes talking about some other bad dudes, they're gonna rip off. Then hell comes raining down on them, when they acquire these old antique shotguns. Action, some of it comic style, and some nasty impassse's ensue, among situation after situation, making for a tight scripted film, with kick arse dialogue. The performances of the four are great, where later though, Stratham, really proved that he was only of standard acting ilk. Vinnie Jones was great and funny, as one of the heavies trying to track down those collectables, and be careful when you use bad language around his son. I found Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, to be immensely enjoyable, and a true blue original, that kind of set the set the standard for a new wave of British gangster flicks. In this one, the comedy, and it's sharp, like in some of the shootout scenes, what have you, and drama, is in perfect amount, an ingredient for success. A film you're treasure for years, and numerous re watchings.