Review: Lock Stock and 2 smocking Barrels

Genre: Crime Gangster/Comedy

My rating for this movie is 4/5 stars

Plot:

The 4 Buddys Eddy(Nick Moran), Tom (Jason Flemyng), Soap(Dexter Fletcher) and Bacon (Jason Statham) gathering each 25.000 pounds, so that poker-ace Eddy can participate in an illegal poker tournament. There he meets the undergroundboss Hatchet Harry(P.H. Moriarty) and in the end of the evening he lost all of the money and owes Harry about 500.000 pounds. Harry gives the 4 guys one week to pay off their depts, otherwise he´ll chop of their fingers...one for each day they´re too late.
After a short time of agony they had the plan to rob a mariuhana plantage and sell the weed.
Now it starts a crazy race trough the whole underworld of London; the whole time the movie follows different storylines that cross sometimes during the movie and get all together in the end. This leads to very weird and curious situations all over the movie.The Story is made very fast by quick cuts and brilliant shots. Througout the movie you can see many parallels to "Snatch" which was too directed by Guy Ritchie.

Acting:

1) In general i think the characters are realistic, but how they accidentely met sometimes is maybe a bit unrealistic.
2) I think some of the gangsters characters are a bit stereotyped, for example there one weapon dealing fat greek guy with goldchain and everything.
3)I think the characters are pretty good developed , you can imagine that they really exists.
4)In my opinion the actors did a great job. It looks very realistic how the act.


Camera Shots:

I think there are some pretty good shots in this film. To speed the story up they used a lot of quick cutting. The camera-angles are also very good and unconventional(in the end there is a scene were a guy gets beat up and the camera films from the position of the victims face)
Also they used in one scene slow motion, which looked pretty good( in the scene there was a firing gun and you can see the fire and shells very detailled)

Final Comments:


1) I highly commend everyone to watch that movie, because its very funny and it had some good action scenes too. Also the characters are very unique and wellacted.
2) Maybe some would say its more a male movie but i think girls can have a lot of fun with it too.Though some scenes are pretty brutal and rude but that belongs to a todays crimemovie i think ;)