I'm tired of these kinds of films...

Rating: 4/10 (20 August 2001)

MAJOR SPOILER
You know what I'm talking about, the kind of films in which people get killed and no one bats an eyelid, when did the term "black comedy" suddenly mean that it was alright to kill a man in you're film and laugh about it. It reminded me of a scene in The Simpsons (yes, I'm quoting the Simpsons, it's a lot more intelligent than anything Guy Ritchie can come up with), when Marge and Lisa are watching an episode of McBain, and McBain snaps a mans neck - Marge says, "Now that's what I call breakneck speed", to which Lisa glibly replays "Mom, a man just died"... If only Guy Ritchie had, had a little Lisa Simpson sitting next to him whilst he wrote this script. But that's not the worst part, Ritchie does actually include a couple of very sinister murders e.g. When Mickey's (Brad Pitt) mother is burned alive, there terrible, because the rest of the film is so empty, what is Ritchie trying to do - if the intention of the film was to be light hearted then don't put in the hard stuff. Well I suppose Snatch is better than Lock Stock, which means perhaps one day Ritchie will make a decent film, and stop destroying the memory of Pulp Fiction with these lame cockney Tarantino rip-offs.
4/10