A Diamond In the Rough

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2002)

"Snatch" has proven director Guy Ritchie to be the British Quentin Tarantino. This movie is bloody and violent, but still funny and exciting. I loved Brad Pitt as One-Punch Mickey, the mush-mouthed Irish gypsy. Other enjoyable characters are Sol, Vinnie and Tyrone, the hapless pawn shop gangsters, Avi, the brash New York diamond merchant, and Brick Top, the baddest movie villain as ever tossed an unlucky soul to the pigs. The plot is very complicated and elaborate, as evidenced by the sequences leading up to Boris the Blade getting run over. But in this cool movie, all you need to do is get lost in the music and flashy visuals.