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Movie Description
A brutally comic tale about a group of London friends who find themselves deep in debt to an East End tough, LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS is quick-paced, stylized, and highly entertaining. In his debut feature film, director-writer Guy Ritchie weaves a tangled web of shady, blithely eccentric characters and several storylines, all of them coming together in a gleeful explosion of murder and mayhem. When streetwise charmer Eddy (Nick Moran), the son of steely bar owner JD (Sting), botches a gambling scheme with his dad's nemesis, porn king Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), he's got one week to come up with 500,000 pounds or he loses his fingers--and so do his friends Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). While the pals scheme to make the money, Harry indulges his penchant for valuable antique shot guns, stolen for him by a couple of inept burglars. Soon the missing guns, a paranoid group of marajuana growers, a mean-spirited debt collector (Vinnie Jones) and his young son, and a violent bunch of thugs, are all thrown together in this tightly-woven, genuinely funny story that takes its inspiration from old British comic gangster flicks like THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN and more recent films like RESERVOIR DOGS and THE USUAL SUSPECTS.
Synopsis
LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS is a kineticly comic tale that follows a group of Londoners who find themselves in over their collective heads after a sour card game. Luckily for them--or so they think--they discover that their neighbors are plotting a robbery, a perfect opportunity for the lads to stumble into some payback money. So the scams begin to pile....
Industry Reviews
"...Stylised wildly at every turn..."
Sight and Sound - p.46-7 - Danny Leigh (09/01/1998)
Rating: A - Recommended
Entertainment Weekly - p.133 - Entertainment Weekly Staff (08/20/1999)
"...Brash, ebullient direction....The punchy little flourishes that load this English gangster film with attitude are perfectly welcome....A fine feat of macho gamesmanship..."
New York Times - p.E22 - Janet Maslin (03/05/1999)
"...[An] exhilarating, showy cinematic style....[With] multiple cackles and head rushes..."
Premiere - Glenn Kenny (03/01/1999)
"...It's bursting with enough cheekiness and hustle-bustle to attract a cult. It's obvious Ritchie has talent..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (03/05/1999)
"...LOCK, STOCK is fun....It has an exuberance....It's alive..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (03/12/1999)
Quotations
"Piss off, y'nonce!"--Big Chris's young son, and criminal-in-training, Little Chris (Peter McNicholl)
"You have a better idea how to get 500,000 pounds, in the next few days...let us know!"--Eddy (Nick Moran) to his friends when he tells them of his robbery plan
"You're JD's son,"--Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty) upon meeting Eddy
"Sorry, I don't know your father."--Eddy.
"You will if you keep that attitude up."--Hatchet Harry
"There is one more thing. It's been emotional."--Big Chris (Vinnie Jones)
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