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 Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1999 / Director: Guy Ritchie / Actors: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, ... more  Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (DVD) ... Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh ... / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Full Screen, PAL, Widescreen / Cockney boys Tom, Soap, Eddie and Bacon are in a bind; they owe seedy criminal and porn king "Hatchet" Harry a sizeable amount of cash after Eddie loses half a million in a rigged game of poker. Hot on their tails is a thug named Big Chris who intends to send them all to the hospital if they don't come up with the cash in the allotted time. Add into the mix an incompetent set of ganja cultivators, two dimwitted robbers, a "madman" with an afro, and a ruthless band of drug dealers and you have an astonishing movie called Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Before the boys can blink, they are caught up in a labyrinth of double-crosses that lead to a multitude of dead bodies, copious amounts of drugs, and two antique rifles.Newest Review: ... cold, whild the rest of the world lap it up as some kind of British crime caper tour de force. To me, Guy Richie's Lock, ... more ... Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is like the wet dream of a teenage Tarantino fan, crammed with Mockney cliches, pointless violence, a ridiculous plot and a relentless "phew aren't drugs, guns and swearing, like, really really cool" tone that most of us grew out of before we left our teens. Yes it's stylishly shot, but in that very smug and obvious way that makes film students applaud and everyone else get a slight headache. Not even a cameo from Sting can save it!
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (DVD): Its A Deal, Its A Steal, Its Sale Of The Century (885 words)
by Andy.mack - written on 31.08.03 (Very useful, 182 readings)
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Whilst I was still at school this film came out and over the course of a couple of French lessons in my final year we watched this and I was almost instantly drawn to it. Obviously I was too young to have gone to the cinema to see it but it had been bought for me as a present when it did finally come out. Of course in case your not aware I'm talking about Guy Richie's debut film Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels. Of course everyone wants to make a bit of money in the easiest possible way and these lads are no different. First up you got Bacon (Jason Statham) who sells stolen goods on street corners. Then you got Tom (Jason Flemyng) who is involved in ...
Watch out Hollywood... (582 words)
by wilma - written on 26.04.01 (Very useful, 48 readings)
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This is the first offering of the now celebrated Guy Ritchie, (of knocking off Madonna fame), and tells the story of four London likely lads who in an attempt to make a bit of cash quick, get themselves involved with some rather unsavoury characters. Soap, Bacon, Fat man & Nick, all cough up £25, 000 grand a piece for Nick to enter into a card game run by local villain Hatchet Harry, who we find out in the directors cut version of the film holds a long standing grudge with Nick’s dad JD (Sting), over a card game held years ago. Hatchet Harry, along with his trusted aid and all round nasty geezer Barry the Baptist (you can just imagine how he got his name!) ...
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (DVD): 'It's been emotional' (455 words)
by Moominpapa - written on 04.12.00 (Very useful, 41 readings)
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For all the talk of the renaissance in British cinema, most of our biggest successes in recent years have either been period dramas or soppy shite with Hugh Grant. Thank the lord for Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels! It seems that only once in about every ten years a British film comes along which really captures the country and becomes an instant hit. The 60s had the infamously enjoyable and clever crime caper, The Italian Job, the 70s the tale of revenge, Get Carter and the 80s had The Long Good Friday. The film of the 90s, however, has to be Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, which, like The Long Good Friday, tells a tale of mob bosses in London, but adds ...
