Snatch2001
Snatch (2001)
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Critic Consensus: Though perhaps a case of style over substance, Guy Ritchie's second crime caper is full of snappy dialogue, dark comedy, and interesting characters.
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Cast
as Turkish
as Mickey O'Neil
as Franky Four Fingers
as Avi
as Bullet Tooth Tony
as Boris the Blade
as Brick Top
as Darren
as Vinny
as Doug the Head
as Sol
as Tommy
as Rosebud
as Tyrone
as Errol
as Mullet
as Neil
as Gary
as Liam
as Alex
as Susi
as MC
as Horrible Man
as Mum O'Neil
as Jack the All Seeing Eye
as Gorgeous George
as Bad Boy Lincoln
as Reuben
as Referee
as Michael
as John
as Avi's Colleague
as Charlie
as Patrick
as Paulie
as Pauline
as Bomber Harris
as Himy
as Sausage Charlie
as Salt Peter
as Mad Fist Willy
as John the Gun
as The Russian
as Horace `Good Night' Anderson
as Gypsy Man
as Gypsy Man
as Gypsy Man
as Gypsy Kid
as Gypsy Kid
as Gypsy Kid
as Brick Top's Henchman
as Brick Top's Henchman
as Brick Top's Henchman
as Brick Top's Henchman
as Policeman
as Policeman
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Critic Reviews for Snatch
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With this morbidly bouncy black comedy Ritchie finds a sneaky way to avoid sophomore slump: by passing his freshman tests all over again. And now for something completely different, please.
Ritchie may be skilled at generating controlled chaos, but his surprise-a-minute strategy ultimately holds no surprises.
Ritchie's follow-up to Lock, Stock is an even more craftily concocted underworld entertainment, helped no end by the casting of Pitt as the bare-knuckle boxer Mickey.
What we have here is a gaudy mess. At times it feels like it's being made up as it goes along.
This may be one of the hazardous offshoots of the music-video-trained generation of moviemakers; they confuse a diet of eye candy with a full meal.
Bouncing around in a world of bare-knuckle boxing, gypsy swindlers, pretend Jewish diamond merchants, indestructible Russian assassins and a thug who disposes of bodies by feeding them to hungry pigs, Snatch has enough plots for a fair-sized cemetery.
Audience Reviews for Snatch
'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 2' could be its real name, Ritchie is back with the second in his British gangster trilogy ('Revolver' being number three) and this time due to the success of his first venture he clearly has more money to play with so he brings in some big name stars. The film is almost the same kind of thing to 'Lock Stock' being another gritty, dirty, slimy cockney collaboration of tales all revolving around yet more oddball wheeler dealers, thugs and gangsters as they all try to get ahold of money, jewels and each other in (again) a Tarantino type way with more gallows humour. The cast again is fantastic and includes yet more British actors that were somehow left out of the first film, over Ritchie's films he's used every known British character actor or soap star we have. The inclusion of some big Hollywood stars actually, for me, brings the film down slightly, they don't seem realistic and can't fit into this exclusively British world thus the film loses its sense of realism, a big Hollywood star doesn't always equal a good direction to go. To be frank the film does really have a R. Rodriguez feel to it eg. 'Mariachi' was made, it did well so RR remade it bigger and better. 'Snatch' does seem to fall into that catergory to a degree, it does feel almost like a reboot or upgrade of 'Lock Stock' as some of the cast that do show up in both films are playing the same kind of role, mainly Vinnie Jones who can't really play anything else. The film has the exact same grotty feel to it with your typical South/East London looking pubs, alleys and streets, more cockney dialect to confuse any non-Londoner, more hints at vicious violence but without actually showing that much, some glorious fights and more swearing than you can possibly imagine. The only thing I don't like about the film is all the silly names everyone has, I just get the feeling Ritchie was trying too hard to make it in the same vain as American New York gangsters, your typical hood with his catchy nickname like Billy the rat or pool table Pauly for example, it just seemed a bit daft. Basically this is another triumph for Ritchie despite making the same film all over again. Alan Fords portrayal of Brick Top is also probably the most chilling baddie I've seen in years. Oi!!! geeeza!!
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An intriguing, interwoven plot. Much funnier than I expected. Pitt's accent was weak, but not to the point of distraction. Sometimes hard to discern the dialog due to heavy accents from the rest the cast. Still, thoroughly enjoyable caper.
Super Reviewer
Guy Ritchie delightfully resurrects and updates Damon Runyon's popular gangland mugs, transports 'em to Britain and has 'em go for a load of loot symbolized by a large hunk of shiny charcoal floating about. Good fun.
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Snatch Quotes
| Turkish: | So, what do you think? Do you know anyone who might be interested? |
| Turkish: | For every action, there is a reaction, and a Piker reaction is quite a fuckin' thing. |
| Bullet Tooth Tony: | You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity. |
| Turkish: | [police are watching Tommy chase the dog] He loves that dog. Always playing silly games. |
| Turkish: | He loves that dog. Always playing silly games. |