A QUALITY CRIME MOVIE

Snatch
(2001)
Guy Ritchie caused a stir—mistaken by some for a storm—with his first feature,
"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." Not wishing to tamper with a winning
formula, he has returned to the scene of the crime, delivering a further batch of never quite credible
Cockneys. They have names like Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) and Brick Top (Alan Ford),
and they converse in the artful patois that Ritchie continues to sell as echt. The plot, this time,
is more convoluted, involving a diamond theft and a series of boxing matches, none of which,
naturally, go according to plan. Ritchie's strength is the running gag; one can only grow fond of
a dog that has swallowed a rubber toy and thus squeaks when it tries to bark. His weakness is a
hectic, self-advertising style that wearies what it's meant to quicken; you come out feeling sated and soiled.
The cast is honored by the presence of Benicio Del Toro, first seen in the garb of a Hasidic Jew, and especially
by Brad Pitt, who plays what is rumored to be an Irish Gypsy, although no one, least of all the other characters,
can decipher what he has to say.
2000)
CAST: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt, Vinnie Jones, Rade Serbedzija, Jason Statham, Lennie James, Ewen Bremner, Alan Ford, Mike Reid, Robbie Gee, Jason Flemyng, Sorcha Cusack, Stephen Graham; DIRECTED BY: Guy Ritchie
SNATCH AS IN HEIST, NOT AS IN PUSSIE, IS A ONE OF A KIND CULT FILM. LIKE FARGO,
THE LANGUAGE IS FASCINATING... DEL TORO IS AN AMAZING PRESENCE. .
WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT IN A QUALITY CRIME MOVIE.
WITH DENNIS FARINA.

PROBABLY AS GOOD AS PULP FICTION,


, FIGHT CLUB,
THE USUAL SUSPECTS, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, TAXI DRIVER,
DOG DAY AFTERNOON, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE,