Watching Snatch , I gave up expecting anything. For example, Ford's Brick Top is a man who, like bartender Tina at the Arvada Tavern, would rather kill you than hear you apologize. Ritchie labors letting us know this, giving him a stupid and boring monologue about flesh-eating pigs and having the narrator tell us how awful he is. Then, Brick Top lets a half-dozen dopes in this story live for no other reason than so that Ritchie can get them in more trouble later. Ritchie never gives us a reason to give a pony's left nut whether any of these jackasses lives or dies.
Nobody has a glint of humanity or redeeming quality.
In Lock, Stock the four main characters are likable because they've been unwillingly thrust into this dark world. They're essentially decent people in a tough spot. In Snatch , Ritchie is more than happy to let everyone wallow in his mud. The performances range from very good to awful. Ford is menacing, Serbedzija is funny as the Russian who can't be killed, and Brad Pitt is surprisingly good.