Outragiously manic crime drama.

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2009)

British writer Guy Ritchie makes his directorial debut with this comedic crime caper. London's East End is home to various unsavory dealings and the underworld is far from invisible. A cocky streetwise lad, who is confident in his card playing skills is cheated out of half-a-million pounds and has one week to gather enough money to payoff the debt...or start losing some digits. He and his best chums decide to ripoff a group of ganja/weed growers. Soon it is madcap mayhem with rapid fire dialogue full of Cockney slang. Violence begets violence, when three sets of criminals want what they think is theirs. Pervasive language runs throughout the graphic violence and often comedic circumstances.
Ritchie chose his own cast that includes: Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Jason Flemying, Lenny McLean, P.H. Moriarty and Sting. A lot is to be said for the entertaining soundtrack featuring among others: James Brown, Dusty Springfield, The Stooges, Ocean Colour Scene, Stretch and Junior Murvin.