Fast-paced and shallow-bursting at its very best

Rating: 8/10 (19 August 2002)

Fast-paced, action-filled and with a sprinkling of comedy this film does very well.
It knows exactly what it is and does not try to pull the whole world into itself and try to make a philosophic - lasting effect on you. - Because it will not do this.
Nevertheless what it does do, which is to keep you constantly on your seat throughout the picture, it does very well. There is a great sense in this film of its left hand not doing what its right hand is doing being used to give a gritty, exact and candid feeling to the film.
Brad Pitt and Vinnie Jones are marvelous and the way the three groups of characters are brought together towards the end of the film is hilarious.
The ending is fairly obvious - but that will not stop you from wanting to see it again and again.
8/10