too smart for its own sake

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2001)

Same as with Lock, Stock and whatever, really. Guy Ritchie, an o.k. director at best, should pick a decent screenwriter for his next project to tone things down a bit. Way too many crossing story-lines, OTT characters and each and every line has to be smart and smug but strangely none of them are genuinely funny or clever, in short OVERKILL. Being rude and spouting profanities doesn't make it funny in itself, although Roy 'Chubby' Brown would disagree on that one.
The British think they have a Tarantino on their hands, but that just proves a cliche about the British and their tendency of overrating themselves.
Horrible stuff, watch Pulp Fiction instead.