One Of The Best Crime Movies Ever

Rating: 9/10 (16 September 2002)

Three different gangs go after the same huge diamond...
I'm really starting to like the genre. Don't know what Guy Ritchie has done before (besides Lock Stock...), to me he is just Madonna's new boyfriend. But this is one hell of a movie. The criminal point of view has never been so funny.
I couldn't stop laughing with all the jokes and silly things. I've seen a cow that just doesn't die before, but when one of the criminals is shot (not gonna tell who) and doesn't die, it's hilarious, and it was a great touch not showing him as he agonizing.
The black guys gang was the best, they could fail on everything they did and still come out alive.
It was a good cast without first line actors, of course I'm not talking about Mr Pitt. His gypsy character was terrific, he had a mind of his own and didn't care about everyone else.
And when you think the film has consumed every way out and is doomed to have a lame ending, something happens and there you are again watching bodies roll and a lot of people chasing the same stone.
Also some of editing was outstanding, like when Dennis Farina flies to London and with the best scene of all, the car crash... I guess these people have 9 lives because when it seems they're dead, the come out again and again the rolling bodies...
Enough talking, I'll give this one a 9/10 just because