Anything to declare?... Yeah don't go to Hollywood!

Rating: 7/10 (26 November 2000)

The British film industry is lucky. Guy Ritchie doesn't like flying!
The main criticism I'd heard regarding this film was that it was just more of the same from its predecessor Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Well I'd rather have a Lock Stock'2 than the 50 Runaway Brides that Hollywood deems worthy to force upon us each year!
Of course it is impossible to avoid comparisons with Ritchie's remarkable debut. The trademarks are all here - the larger than life criminal underworlders (including more racial stereotypes than all the Bond films put together), the far-fetched farcical plot, and the comicbook violence. However, Snatch is an altogether darker, harder tonic to swallow.

While Snatch may be a lot darker in tone, with hard edged depictions of life in the depths of the criminal underworld (most notably the dog-fighting), it still delivers plenty of punch in its comedy. The cast all seem to thoroughly enjoy their roles (most of which are pretty much straightforward cameos) with Brad Pitt perhaps steeling the show with his spot on coherently-challenged Gypsy boxer.
Snatch is a brutally stylish, wickedly enjoyable British gangster film. More of the same then!