Coming in with movie #4 this week.

Movie #4

Snatch

Snatch is a 2000 comedy crime film written and directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, and featuring an ensemble cast. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots — one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter named Turkish (Jason Statham) who finds himself under the thumb of a sadistic gangster known as Brick Top (Alan Ford). Snatch is characterized by an assortment of colourful characters, including the "pikey" Irish Traveller Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt), Russian-Uzbek ex-KGB agent and arms-dealer Boris "the Blade" Yurinov (Rade Sherbedgia), professional thief and gambling addict Frankie "Four-Fingers" (Benicio del Toro) and bounty hunter Bullet-Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones). It is also distinguished by a kinetic direction and editing style, a circular plot featuring numerous ironic twists of chance and causality, and a fast pace. The film shares similar themes, ideas and motifs as Ritchie's first film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It is also filmed in the same visual style and features many of the same actors, including Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham and Jason Flemyng, who appears in a minor role as one of the "pikeys".

Snatch is one of the most memorable films of all time for me because of the way Guy Ritchie was able to add comedy to what was once a serious film. To better it, add in different story lines that come together in a humorous way, and you get a film unlike any other that you can recall in recent memory. To go from a film that the director thought was going to be a failure and have it end up being a huge success world wide is not a feat that's easy to do, but Guy was able to pull it off. So sit back, laugh, cringe, and enjoy this wonderful movie. I promise you will walk away quoting lines from the movie and laughing about it for the next few days.

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