Just a slice of everyday life for we Fenlanders!

Rating: 9/10 (6 December 2003)

If you find 'Snatch' confusing, just come and live in my area for a month - it will all fall into place very quickly! When I heard that Brad Pitt had been cast as the pikey boxer, I groaned inwardly - Yanks telling us how to live our lives again! But no, he is brilliant. He has it down pat. He is just dirty enough, dishonest enough and unintelligible enough to make you think he really is a pikey! I was equally impressed with the rest of the cast - sterling performances all round! Considering Ritchie is an old Harrovian and has lived his life just about as far away as you can get from the world of the itinerant pikeys, he recreated their world to perfection. Well done!
I can well understand that many of you out there in the wide world would have found the dialogue almost completely incomprehensible but all praise to the director. He has sacrificed clarity for realism and come out on top. The plot, of course, is total nonsense but, so what, it's not a documentary, is it? The film has plenty of plusses. Loads of action, gratuitous violence galore, a rollicking pace and pretty (non) exotic locations.
I really liked it and thought it owed only a little to 'Lock Stock' which I liked equally well. Recommended to anyone who hasn't seen it.