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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Director: Guy Ritchie
- Writer: Guy Ritchie
- Producer: Stephen Marks; Georgia Masters
CGiii Comment
This film has been addled with praise...
It propelled Ritchie into big beds and bigger budgets.
True, it is a rather clever story.
True, it is beautifully filmed.
Yes, Ritchie does have a directorial and writing talent...however, he can't spot bad acting even when it hits him between the eyes - and this film is riddled with it - but then, the MTV generation (who this was obviously aimed at) don't give a toss or are unable to spot a good or bad actor.
The CGiii aspect is derisive: all public schoolboys are poofs, and all poofs are susceptible to any bum-tickling fraud.
'Golf is a good walk spoiled.' - Mark Twain.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.
Cast & Characters
Jason Flemyng as Tom;
Dexter Fletcher as Soap;
Nick Moran as Eddy;
Jason Statham as Bacon;
Steven Mackintosh as Winston;
Nicholas Rowe as J;
Nick Marcq as Charles;
Charles Forbes as Willie;
Vinnie Jones as Big Chris;
Lenny McLean as Barry The Baptist;
Peter McNicholl as Little Chris;
P.H. Moriarty as Hatchet Harry;
Frank Harper as Dog;
Steve Sweeney as Plank;
Huggy Leaver as Paul