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Jason Statham

Alan Ford

Stephen Graham

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Dennis Farina

Robbie Gee

Lennie James

Benicio del Toro

Rade Šerbedžija

Vinnie Jones

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Terry Williams

James Harris

David Rees

Pat Karam

Daniel L. Griffiths

Adam Bohling

Matthew Collinge

Willi Geiger

Simon Hayes

Ken Lailey

Emma Pike

Arthur Fenn

Maurice Landsberger

Ray Bateman

John Roberts

Barrie Gower

Ian Cross

Stuart Graham

Philip Smith

Nicki Varney

Mick Ward

Sandra Fattorre

Darren McQuade

Charles Jarman

Peter Burden

Debbie Ninnis

Ian Neil

Michael Elson

Richard Oxley

Elizabeth Hoar

Vanessa Baker

Emma Engers

Sarah Gellately-Smith

Les Healey

Diane Greaves

Andy Duncan

Paul Conway

Casper Lailey

Giles Edleston

Jake Marcuson

Peter Dansie

In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?

Snatch seems to be one of those spunky British gangster films that critics are divided on, yet it's loved by the target audience. Guy Ritchie has done a Sam Raimi, he has remade the first film that put him on the cinematic map. Where Raimi remade The Evil Dead, and just called it Evil Dead II, Ritchie cheekily tries to get away with remaking Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and calling it Snatch. Sure the circumstances in plotting are different, and there's a big American star brought in to beef things up for the global market, but it's the same movie and without doubt it's lazy film making. But it still - like Evil Dead II - Rocks!

Snatch in story terms is concerned with a big diamond that stitches together a number of threads involving the London underworld. Some rough and tough Romany types join in the fun, headed by a purposely illegible Brad Pitt, while Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro and Rade Serbedzija add more cosmopolitan meat to the crooks and gangster stew. The British cement holding the building up comes in the twin forms of Jason Statham and Stephen Graham, with Vinnie Jones once again turning up to frighten the masses. Everything from bare knuckle fighting to bumbled robberies - to dog fighting and shifty arcade empires - are here, with Ritchie writing characterisations that positively boom off of the screen. 

As with "Lock-Stock", the beauty is in the way violence and humour are deftly blended. Scenes are often bloody but also bloody funny, a pearl of dialogue is never far away from a perilous situation. The comic tone is more close to the knuckle here, Ritchie having fun toying with ethnic and machismo stereotypes, while he brings his bag of visual tricks before it got boring. The narrative is deliciously complex, but much credit to Ritchie for the way he pulls all the threads neatly together in a whirl of scene splicing and cocky literary assuredness.

So it's "Lock-Stock 2" then! No bad thing if you happen to be a fan of that sort of wide boy malarkey. If you don't like it? Then jog on sunshine. 8/10

Peak cinema. I absolutely love this movie, this is a fast-paced, filled with jokes and charismatic characters rollercoaster that's definetely worth watching

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