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GRADE: B- | The Pikey. |
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The second high-profile feature from the man who will forever be known as Madonna's husband is an entertainingly hard-boiled, but empty, British gangster drama. I never saw Guy Ritchie's previous Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but imagined it would play as a hybrid of Pulp Fiction and Trainspotting. Watching Snatch, I figured it as a knock-off on Lock, Stock. Nothing new here -- the film's neatest trick is beating Memento to U.S. theaters with a short sequence of events that actually unfolds in reverse. Hollywood's own Benicio Del Toro drops out of the picture distressingly early, but the big draw for U.S. audiences is presumably Brad Pitt, who is very funny as an incomprehensible gypsy with a talent for boxing. Ritchie's screenplay cleverly combines a multitude of characters and story threads into a rollicking but inconsequential confection of comedy and brutality.
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Written and directed by Guy Ritchie Cinematography by Tim Maurice-Jones Edited by Jon Harris UK/USA, 2000
Theatrical aspect ratio: 1.85:1
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