SNATCH (DIDIER BECU)

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2003)

Guy Ritchie has become in short time one of the hippest British directors and this movie is the one that brought him the public fame and what a movie it is!!! It all starts in Antwerp where some gangsters are stealing a 84 Carat Diamond and then you get a lot of personages who only want one thing : that glimmering stone!!! It's definitely not an easy job for the viewer to know who is who...they all have typical gangsternames and Ritchie directs in an ultrafast way (indeed Tarantinolike) that it is only at the end you know which gangs were in the movie (and so seeing the film for a second time won't be a bad thing). But then again this is not about the story as all by all it's nothing more than some slapstick but it's in the way this movie is directed!!! Ultraviolent (one of the main gangster Brick Top thinks that dead bodies are perfect food for pigs) and ultrafunny (just watch Vinnie Jones) and ultraoriginal (the best performance by Brad Pitt I ever saw, and if you're not having British as your mother tongue, you will need subtitles!!!)...and there is even a hilarious dog in it too. Great movie.