Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (DVD)

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 ...

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!) ...

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 ...