Country: GB/US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, Rade Serbedzija, Jason Statham, Alan Ford, Mike Reid
Synopsis:
An attempt to fence an enormously valuable diamond with a London jeweller is complicated by the involvement of a Russian arms dealer, a pair of black pawnbrokers, and an assortment of gangsters and bare-knuckle boxing promoters.
Review:
An even jokier retread of the same director's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, like Quentin Tarantino on speed. The colour is deliberately, and unattractively, greyed out, the violence of cartoon-like inconsequentiality, and Pitt's gimmicky star performance as an Irish 'gypo' unintelligible without subtitles. Entertainment value is just about sustained all the same, for those with hardened sensibilities.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, Rade Serbedzija, Jason Statham, Alan Ford, Mike Reid
Synopsis:
An attempt to fence an enormously valuable diamond with a London jeweller is complicated by the involvement of a Russian arms dealer, a pair of black pawnbrokers, and an assortment of gangsters and bare-knuckle boxing promoters.
Review:
An even jokier retread of the same director's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, like Quentin Tarantino on speed. The colour is deliberately, and unattractively, greyed out, the violence of cartoon-like inconsequentiality, and Pitt's gimmicky star performance as an Irish 'gypo' unintelligible without subtitles. Entertainment value is just about sustained all the same, for those with hardened sensibilities.
