One Step Forward (..and not two) for Guy Ritchie

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2000)

Guy Ritchie has definitely done it again. Using the same formula as in Lock, Stock.. and backed by the ever - in - search - of - a - new - image - Madonna, Ritchie has gone and made another winner.
Tightly scripted, cleverly shot, and classily casted, this is an immensly entertaining film.
Brad Pitt deserves his own little paragraph. Brad Pitt has had a terrible career. Brad Pitt thought that having a pretty face and muscles makes you a good actor but, as countless others have proved before him (including the abysmal Keanu Reeves), that is not enough. So Brad Pitt took a lesson from Johnny Depp on how to overcome your pretty face by choosing challenging, unexpected and difficult roles in films not intended to be watched by freckle faced brace wearing teenage girls. Brad Pitt has finally switched ranks and hopefuly, after the Fight Club and this film he will never again shave.
As this is Ritchie's second film, he is excused from making the same film again (with bigger budget, snazzier cast etc) but, he will not be able to make another film that looks like a Smirnoff/Guiness commercial if he wishes to develop his undoubtebly original talent.