Snatch

Starring: Jason Statham, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones, Alan Ford, Mike Reid and Brad Pitt

Director: Guy Ritchie

Running Time: 102 mins

Available to buy on DVD and Video

Turkish (Statham) and Tommy (Graham) are two non-licensed boxing promoters who unfortunately get entangled in a Diamond robbery that has gone to the dogs. After their prizefighter is knocked out in punch by pikey Mickey (Pitt), Brick Top, the organiser of the fight and the local hard man orders Turkish and Tommy to replace the fighter and make sure he takes a dive in the fourth round. Meanwhile, Boris the Blade is trying to get the fruits of the robbery from Frankie Four-Fingers, without having to pay for it by using Vinny and Sol to do the dirty work for him. The American buyer, Cousin Avi doesn’t like what he hear and comes over to London to work the situation out with jeweller Doug-the-Head (Reid) and his hard man Bullet-Tooth Tony (Jones).

This is Guy Ritchie’s make or break second movie and like Quentin Tarantino before him he succeeds, big style. Ritchie has a visual style and inventiveness all of his own, combining freeze frame, rotating camera angles and current dance and indie into a visual spectacle, which grabs up and pulls you right in. Both character and dialogue writing are of the highest calibre, proving again that the combination of comedy and violence can work if the consequences of one out weight the any possibility of the other. To me in Guy Ritchie, we have a British version of Tarantino and dare I even say it, a director with the visual flare of a young Martin Scorsese.

Yes the story and setting are similar to that of Lock Stock, but this does not matter, as the film is like, as Pulp Fiction was for Tarantino another trip into that same world we had visited previous. This is the best British film of 2000 and I can’t wait until Ritchie makes his next one, which he said would be totally different.

Deleted Scenes (15 mins), 'Making Of' Featurette (25 mins), Guy Ritchie Commentary, Teaser Trailer, Theatrical Trailer, Interviews, Storyboard To Film Comparisons, Production Notes, Filmographies, Snatch B-Roll, TV Spots, Photo gallery Plus hidden extras!