Better than Lock, Stock?

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2015)

Snatch is Guy Ritchie's second British masterpiece, taking the good out of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and creating a movie to match it. The narrative is hugely similar; the black comedy still pushes the envelope with brute force, a solid script delivers an intricate cast of gangsters, thugs and druggies fighting over one item: a priceless jewel. What's new? Brad Pitt as an Irish gypsy. His accent's incomprehensible, an exaggeration on a stereotype we all love to hate. Ritchie knows his British stereotypes, from the gypsy's and the hooligans (Vinnie Jones), to the cockneys (Alan Ford) and the greedy American (as the British see them). Ritchie does crime and slang like no other. Snatch is a tangle of great stories driven by a single outcome (think 2004's Crash). It's hilarious and just as good as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, if not better.