A great flick by England's answer to Tarantino

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2003)

SNATCH is Guy Ritchie's masterpiece (a great follow-up to his debut, LOCK, STOCK, AND 2 SMOKING BARRELS), regarding the many elements of crime in merry old England, particularly London. The entire cast does a dynamite job playing the cast of loonies with seperate intentions that somehow parallel each other, like MAGNOLIA but with a more greaseball edge. Standouts in the cast include Jason Statham's hard-edged boxing promoter Turkish, bad-assed Brit Vinnie Jones, and the incoherent Gypsy brawler Mickey, played with a finally convincing performance by Brad Pitt (in my opinion, anyway.)