A Wonderful Crime Farce

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2001)

Friday was another movie day, sorta catch up to see the some of them before the awards, and specifically the Foreign films since I will be attending a symposium with the foreign film nominee directors/producers at the Academy two days before the big-time awards.
SNATCH is not unique in the genre of farce story telling of gangsters stepping on other gangsters while pulling off independent schemes of getting their piece of the pie the easy way. Well, the easy way is not that easy when independent plots converge on cops-and-robbers after many laughs of robbers-and-robbers that carries the film.
This is an oddly funny film once one tunes the ear to British country way of speaking. What? What did they say....?
It is always nice to see a movie with a cast of actors who want to bubble to the top -- and clearly have their day in the roles in this movie. Two actors were strangely placed. First, Benicio Del Toro ("TRAFFIC") appears as Franky Four Fingers which was a distraction as I asked myself, "Where do I know that person from??? My 30cent a gallon WATER store owner in Culver City?" And then the star with bottom billing while giving his best performance in recent filmology, none other than Brad Pitt (One Punch' Mickey ONeil ).
The planned snatching of a prized diamond only sets the stage for a strange and wonderful adventure in the English craving for good, innocent crime (s) that excels in complicity all things that would shock Sherlock plots.
Just tune your ears, and don't worry about One Punch' Mickey ONeil. Only his gypsy mobile home travellers can really enjoy his jokes and dialogue.