Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Benicio Del Toro | ... | Franky Four Fingers | |
Dennis Farina | ... | Cousin Avi | |
Vinnie Jones | ... | Bullet-Tooth Tony | |
Brad Pitt | ... | Mickey O'Neil | |
Rade Serbedzija | ... | Boris the Blade (as Rade Sherbedgia) | |
Jason Statham | ... | Turkish | |
Alan Ford | ... | Brick Top | |
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Mike Reid | ... | Doug the Head |
Robbie Gee | ... | Vinny | |
Lennie James | ... | Sol | |
Ewen Bremner | ... | Mullet | |
Jason Flemyng | ... | Darren | |
Ade | ... | Tyrone | |
William Beck | ... | Neil | |
Andy Beckwith | ... | Errol |
Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets badly beaten by Mickey, a 'pikey' ( slang for an Irish Gypsy)- who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Mickey not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including 'Cousin Avi', 'Boris The Blade', 'Franky Four Fingers' and 'Bullet Tooth Tony'. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog. Written by Filmtwob <webmaster@filmfreak.co.za>
I am a 33 year old woman in a flowered dress who doesn't drink, rarely swears, sleeps with a teddy bear, and has never raised a hand to anyone in my life. But I liked this movie a lot, and according to someone who wrote a review earlier, that makes me personally responsible for the violence in America. I'm sorry - I never intended to hurt anyone.
As for the movie - I usually get confused in fast-paced movies with so many characters, but when I watched Snatch I was able to keep all the characters straight pretty easily because each one had something unique and quirky about him. I liked that, and I liked the accents, and I liked the silly plot-twist humor, and I liked the dogs. The evil men were EVIL ("so evil you would call it the froo-its of the dev-eel" to quote Mike Meyers). The bumbling men were endearing. The music was great.
It was very violent (more so than Pulp Fiction, I think). Yet somehow it did not offend me and looking back at it I still laugh out loud.
Oh, and I never saw "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels", for whatever that's worth.