Tongue In Cheek Violence. Ethereal People.

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2002)

Snatch is a movie that practices tongue-in-cheek violence. The director walks the line between "heh!" and "ugh!" right thru the film. There are no good guys in Guy Ritchie's world of shade. Just good bad guys and bad bad guys. Of course, for Del Torro or Pitt fans, its a great watch as both deliver captivating performances with elan. Although the plot is fundamentally slapstick and will at no point tickle your grey cells, Ritchie paints a picture better than he builds a story. Not a movie with a beginning and an ending. Rather, a glimpse into the somewhat nocturnal and mostly violent lives of a set of people who, at the end, seem to fit rather ethereally into the plot.