Fast-paced, funny, and with engaging characters

Rating: 9/10 (12 August 2001)

This movie is about a few small-time crooks who get involved with a few big-time crooks. The reasons are a boxer, a gypsy boxer, and a very big diamond.
All through the movie, I sympathized with the small guys who kept ending up in worse and worse situations. Like having two big guys force you to do two opposite thingss... you always wonder how on earth they're going to get out of the mess.
It is a rather violent movie, like its predecessor from the same author: "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels". But the violence is never glorified nor dramatized. It just happens that people die when bullets hit them. And bullets happen to be fired by violent people in a violent world.
The style of story telling is like "Lock Stock...": rhapsodic. Short cuts, sometimes back in time, sometimes forward. Two second-long cuts can be enough to give a very good impression of what is happening.
What really brings the humour out is the understated british style. With an american accent and attitude, this movie would have been a disaster.
All in all, a very enjoyable movie. Even my girlfriend liked it, despite some doubts at the beginning.