You'll get lost in this movie

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 2001)

Movies like Pulp Fiction make you forget you are watching a film and make you feel as though you are seeing real, albeit strange, but nonetheless real characters at work. Snatch does that as well. Most of us have very different lives. We all punch the clock, go to work, play with the dog, watch sports and whatever else it is that we do during our day. But in Guy Ritchie's labrynthian like tail, no one is normal. No one does things that the rest of us would do. They are all bound by the Tarantinoesque laws of fiction. And those laws dictate that if there is trouble to find, they find it and if there is a situation that calls for impropriety, it is here, in this film.
Snatch is a lot of fun. When you inhabit a world that shares it's space with guys like Bullet Tooth Tony, Doug The Head, One Punch Mickey, Frankie Four Fingers, Boris The Blade, Turkish, Brick Top and Cousin Avi, you can't help but to have fun. The story is quite complicated and by the time you figure out exactly what is going on, a different angle to the story is introduced. But in some way or another, every member of this story is involved in one way or another, with a diamond that has 84 carats to it. Frankie Four Fingers steals it, Boris the Blade wants it, so does cousin Avi as does does Bullet Tooth Tony. Turkish gets messed up in it somehow and then so does BrickTop, which brings in One Punch Mickey. Confused, you ain't seen nothing yet.
What it comes down to though is that you don't really have to know exactly who fits where in the story. I stopped keeping track of everyones importance about a third of the way through the film. I was having too much fun. Once again we are treated to Benetio Del Toro's mastery of accents as this time he brandishes a Turkish/Russian/Arabian accent. The man really is the best actor out there today. Too bad he dies early in the film, I would have liked to see more of him. Then we are introduced to Brad Pitt and he has a "whoknowswhatkindof" accent. As they say in the film, it is not Irish, not English, just Pygmie. Half the time you have no idea what he saying and the other half you are just barely making it out. But he is incredibly humourous and when he is hard to understand is some of the best humour in the film. Brad Pitt is one hell of an under rated actor but with films like this, he is sure to get a little recognition.
Snatch is violent and it is mean but it does it so stylishly that it becomes fun. I think this is a Pulp Fiction like clone. It is not as good, nothing ever will be, but it is a worthy imitator. Having fun at the movies is what being there is all about. Snatch never forgets that.
9 out of 10- One of the films that will probably make my ten best at the end of 2001.