WiTTY, SaRCaSTiCaLLY FuNNY *8/10*

Rating: 7/10 (25 January 2002)

Tag-Line (EUR): "SNATCH- now you see it, now you dont!--you wha-?"
Snatch was voted the best film of 2000 in the United Kingdom, and stayed a favourite for months in the charts of Europe too. The build upto this film was more anticipated in England and Europe than it was in the US, because of the initial impact of Guy Rithice's recent 1998 independant release of "Lock, Stock & Two-Smoking Barrels." Snatch uses pretty much the same script plan as Lock, Stock, only with a much larger budjet at hand, as well as some big hollywood names in the pan. The film's identity is dogged down with the appearance of Bennico Del torro (FRANKY-FOUR FINGERS), & partly by Brad Pitt (MICKEY). But somehow in an odd way, Pitt balances out nicely and does the film jusitce with his exellent take to a seedy pikey (Irish-liek slang, but either Irish or English dialect) accent, and dodgy make-over. Dennis Farina (COUSIN AVI), without making any offense...does a great, if not comical job of portraying the frustrated, greedy American/Jewish diamond jewller intent on getting things flow his own way, fed up with the constant "alienation" from his much-loved artificial world of ritches, facing upto a hunt into the heart of the seedy British underworld. The film is fast paced with shifty, effective editing techniques (more jumpier than the ones in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, that diserse the viewer from the past to the present, and add enthusiasim to the shear comedy of the irony which is "accidental." I must have seen Snatch at least 30 times now, both sitting down and while I'm working" Overall, an exellent to watch with anyone, but for the real macoy watch Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.