Cor blimey guvnor. How cynical can you get?

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2000)

Britain's current infatuation with vicious, throat-cutting gangster culture continues with this piece of exploitation which is neither as funny nor as charming as it would like you to think it is.
Guy Ritchie, a semi-aristocrat with pretensions to working class chic, attempts to sustain the myth that all gangsters are just loveable rogues rather than the sadistic sociopaths that they really are. Sure, violent men have their reasons to be violent and many fine films have been made which have sensibly explored the theme of male violence. Snatch is not one of these.
The day when an audience is expected to derive amusement from the exploits of psychopaths and enjoy a 'good laugh' along with them as they dish out their un-metered brutality is a day when... hang on a minute! That day seems to have come. I hope we all have enough sanity not to laugh.