So what?

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2002)

I'll make this commentary short. "So what?" is my reaction to this movie. The film made absolutely no attempt to make me care about any of the characters except for...Chris? The independent thug with a son. Other than that character, I couldn't identify or care about anybody. They were cardboard. The humor was droll and not particularly clever. I laughed approximately five times in this dark comedy.
Which is depressing, because I am likely their target audience. I love dark comedies and B-films. I've endured cardboard characters in such films as Robot Monster, Crocodile (the Thailand one), and Troma's War. I have nothing against foriegn movies--they're usually better than American films. But no, not here.
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels just sits there. You just sit there. You look at it. It continues to sit there. This movie doesn't achieve anything. The denouement is annoying and took too long, with an especially wretched deus ex machina. This movie just fails to be of any merit. Top 250...yeah right.