Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels Movie Review 1998

Plot twist-laden British caper comedy plays like Tarantino and crumpets. Four dim hoods, Bacon (Statham), Soap (Fletcher), Eddy (Moran) and Tom (Flemyng), pool their ill-gotten gains so that Eddy can play in a high stakes card game. They don't know that the game is fixed, however, and they end up owing gambler Hatchet Harry (Moriarity) 500,000 pounds. The bumbling band plan to rob their drug dealing neighbor Dog (Harper), who's planning on robbing an upper class rival of his own. Throw in a wandering pair of antique shotguns and you have the recipe for a cap-poppin' good time. Rock star Sting appears as the pub-owning father of one of the lads.

Distribution

USA Home Entertainment, 1 W. Forest, Englewood, NJ 07631-4004, Phone: (201)871-1000, URL: http://www.polygram-us.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 105 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Anti-Heroes, Rock Stars on Film, Gambling, Great Britain, Scams, Stings & Cons, Heists, Disorganized Crime, Stupid Is...

Screenplay

Guy Ritchie

Cast

Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, Sting, Lenny McLean, P. H. Moriarty, Steve Sweeney, Frank Harper, Stephen Marcus

Cinematography

Tim Maurice-Jones

Director

Guy Ritchie

Music

David A. Hughes, John Murphy

Producer

Gramercy Pictures

Awards

MTV Movie Awards 1999: New Filmmaker (Ritchie).