Stolen Goods

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2001)

"Snatch" is, if anything, a wild ride, littered with clever plot twists
and turns. This movie is never boring, it's funny, and the acting is
first rate - although, as Americans, we tend to make being British
and good acting the same thing. Benecio Del Toro and Brad Pitt,
the two main non-British actors, shine here - especially Brad Pitt,
playing a incoherent conniving gypsy boxer, who hijacks every
scene and refuses to give them back. What is left to be desired in
this movie is something to separate it from Guy Richie's previous
film, "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels." They are both
practically the same film, and I just couldn't get over that. Both
base their plots on a complicated robbery, which turns into a
crazed, offbeat caper, featuring 2847 subplots, quick dialogue, and
a refusal to slow the pace of the movie even for a second. Richie's
mastery of dark humor is quite unique, but, because there isn't
anything new here, the movie isn't.