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Rating: 6/10 (23 July 2001)

"Snatch"...what a perfect title for a movie made by a guy married to Madonna...maybe someday he will cofeature it with Amanda Peet's "Whipped".
Not to say there is not a lot to like in "Snatch," at least the colorful characters, flashy editing and great sight gags. I even found the dialogue witty, once I turned on the close captioning, so I could understand it. The best (and truest) line in the movie comes from Dennis Farina ("For a country that spawned the English language, you think somebody'd be able to speak it." The BEST English comes from the three black
and quite luckless thugs. Is there a message here? To complicate things even more, Brad Pitt, playing a gypsy, speaks a language even the Limeys don't understand.
Perhaps it is just as well writer / director Guy Ritchie made "Snatch" verbally incomprehensible. Certainly, there isn't too much to the story, which opens with a diamond heist and involves a predictable series of misadventures which follow.
If you have a DVD player, be sure to rent the DVD; it has a very funny deleted scene involving Benecio Del Toro (Frankie Four Fingers). It also has subtitles in the madeup language Brad Pitt uses in the movie.
This movie would have been big disappointment without close captioning. As it is, it is a funny, is somewhat predictable, and surprisingly violent caper film.