Two minutes Turkish!

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2007)

This movie is so good it hurts. Literally. When you're laughing so much that you can't breathe- but not during the movie, although it is funny then, but when you're quoting it to death with your friends afterwards. Because that's the sort of movie this is; the kind of movie with awesome one-liners that you will quote for the rest of your life; the kind of movie with a killer cast that surprises you repeatedly with it's compatibility; the kind of movie with the no-holds- barred style of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels combined with the fast-paced, twisted action of I don't know what. Each separate inter-weaving string could almost be a tale on its own, but is so much better when weaved together. And best of all, it's the kind of hard, rough n tumble, non-pretentious cinema that I love and that most directors would do a good turn watching. My favourite performances were those from Vinnie Jones (..."would precipitate the shrinking of your balls") and Jason Statham (..."before ze Germans get here"); Brad Pitt gets a notable mention (..."ts fer me ma"). I give it a 10/10 because my test of a top-marks film is the ability to watch in more than once in the space of a week- I watched it 3 times!