Best swearing award

Rating: Null/10 (25 September 1998)

And the award for best swearing in a film goes to... LS&2SB. It is just outstanding. Not the testosterone-pumped F-this F-that of your American gangster film.
This is much more subtle - it's almost quaint. The big guns of swearing are for show, but it's the delicate greys of obscenity that are for the pro - much more bloody, much more gory, more inclined to hurt.
And the best in show, the prince in a court of fantastic put-downs... Well, I'm paraphrasing, but it's something like this.
Revered gangland heavy: "You want a lolly, son?" Unlikely eleven-year-old cherub: "P*** off, nonce."
Inspired. Such perfect dialogue. Honest to goodness, I really mean this, there's kind of reverence to language in this film which you could also pin on Shakespeare. It's confident and brash and a little contrived, but so remarkably enjoyable for it.
Nice one Guy Ritchie.