Make sure you grab it!

Rating: 10/10 (31 August 2000)

Snatch - Guy Ritchie and the cast and crew should grab a load of Oscar nominations for what is the best film to come out of the UK since...Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.
If you enjoyed Ritchie's previous work, then you're guaranteed to like this cleverly interwoven tale of diamonds, dogs, dodgy geezers and dead bodies. You'll even notice some striking similarities to Lock Stock, as once again we see Vinnie Jones modifying someones skull in a car door!
However, there's plenty of new twists and turns to the tale, and far more humour than I was expecting, which the whole audience seemed to enjoy enormously. Brad Pitt does well in his role as One Punch Mickey, but be warned, you'll find it difficult to understand anything he says, but this is all part of the plot.
Without doubt, some Politically Correct interest group will bleat on about the potential racial stereotyping of gypsies, but it's a film for God's sake, and a very good one at that. The soundtrack is one of the best for a long time, and it's stylish without ever being in danger of being pretentious or over-elaborate.
See it, love it, buy the T-shirt - aren't preview screenings great?!?!