Review of La Orca (1976) by David B — 30 Dec 2014

Guy Ritchies follow-up to his Lock, stock film is brilliant. Once again, he brings, writes and directs some wonderful characters that are full of colour and sometimes over-the-top. The cast once again are fantasic, with familer faces from his first film and bring in some new ones, most notictable Brad Pitt as "One-Punch Mickey" a pikey traveller, who's also a bare-knuckle boxer and as 'ard as nails.

Brad Pitt is amazing, putting on a very VERY thick Irish accent and sometimes steals the best scenes. The film is once again funny, bringing in more dark humour that's probably more funnier than the first but at times it does try so hard to be funny, with some of the black humour moments a hit-or-miss and sometimes the jokes get repeated with an odd change in the dialog, there's nothing wrong with this film, it just proves that his Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels wasn't a fluke but it treads in the same territory than the first film did, still it's got a great ending and some amazing fight scenes.

Had Lock, Stock never exsisted, I would've given this five stars but that being the case there isn't really much difference between the two films. Still a great film though and a must see!!