Brilliance amidst a sea of flotsam.

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2001)

There have been a small handfull of watchable films in the past twelve months. This is one of them.
Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels) does it again with this tour-de-force heist flick taking cues from Darren Aronofsky and Quentin Tarantino while building off them instead of merely ripping them off.
If Quentin Tarantino had made more than one film in the past seven years (he hasn't) then we may never have even heard of Guy Ritchie. But I'm glad we have. He's one of the most visually inventive filmmakers of the past fifteen years and it's nice to see something original and creative instead of drek like Traffic and Castaway.