Lock Stock and a Rock : an entertaining disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2000)

If LSA2SB was your favourite film then there is no doubt that you are going to lap up this 2nd slice of stylised cockney hi-jinx. if you are expecting an improvement you may be disappointed.
Snatch tells the story of a couple of boxing promoters who get into a spot of jeopardy. When their prize fighter is lamped by a Â‘pikey' (gypsy) played by Brad Pitt), they are forced to turn to him in order to save their neck from a local wideboy named Bricktop.
Despite his ropey lingo, Brad Pitt easily steals the show with some terrific lines and some prolific punching.
There are lots of other elements to the film, diamonds, yardies, dogs, guns and armed robberies, not to mention bareknuckle fighting that has all the intensity seen in FIGHT CLUB.
The disappointing thing about Snatch is that, once you've heard a bit about it, the stars, the plot, the style!, it gives you an unachievable sense of expectation. That said, it is still one of the best example of small-time-blundering-cockney-gangster movies to come out of Britain.

Another let down was Vinny Jones, he's featured in a variety of cringe-worthy in jokes (one featuring a like for like car door/head scene). He doesn't have the subtly of BIG CHRIS in LSA2SB, he seems a little too smug.
Overall it is a very entertaining hour or so, it feels like a more like one of the Lock Stock TV series rather than a new film in its own right.

I think that the Lock Stock TV series severely undermines this film by already giving us a full set of 'pass the booty' shows , a formula that Guy Riches seem (more than a little) attached to.
Not as fresh as LSA2SB, but more brutal and a lot funnier. 8/10