Saturday, October 19, 2013

Click Here To Watch Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

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.

Review

If this film had been dubbed for American viewers (even if it would have lost the magic of the cockney accent) not one person from the States would have said this wasnt a really good film. I didnt even understand most of the dialogues but the weirdness of the characters and of what they did was really funny. Not hysterically funny but Funny! The mixture of comedy and violence was the thing that most amused me. The story itself isnt of the most original but surely efficacious. The photography and the soundtrack were also brilliant and to finish I saw Pulp Fiction I loved it but after seeing LS&2SM I was too busy thinking over and over how much I liked it for noticing a whatsoever similarity with PF. 10 out of 10 is a bit too much… but 910 definitely isnt! Watch it!