Review of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) by Rick R — 10 Apr 2011

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

This was my first experience with a Guy Richie film. A lot of Brits.

Like his kind of gangster/caper/comedy movies too, with the excellent.

Scripts, interesting characters, the fast action, and the special way.

The movies are edited, with lots of fast cuts, slow motion, and split.

Screens, as well as groovy soundtracks. We Yanks enjoy them too,.

Although we may need to enable the closed captioning on to help us.

Follow the East-ender cockney.

Four mates, Tom (Jason Flemyng), Soap (Dexter Fletcher), Bacon (Jason.

Statham) combine their funds to get Ed (Nick Moran) into a high stakes.

Poker game. Ed is good, but he can't beat a crooked card game and now.

Owes a big sex toy gangster, Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty) a half.

Million pounds, with the vig coming due in one week.

Hatchet Harry's got his people as incentive to pay, including his.

Underboss, Barry the Baptist (Lenny McNicholl) and his enforcer/.

Conscientious father, Big Chris (Vinnie Jones). Of course Hatchet.

Harry would gladly take Ed's Dad's (JD/Sting's) pub.

The four are going to take care of this themselves. The boys have an.

Office next door to a crew of thugs, who they over-hear planning to.

Rip off an urban pot growing operation. The thing is, everybody is in.

The same thieving business and they're all stealing and dealing, with.

And from each other. All of these capers are at cross-purposes.