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Guy RitchieScreenplay:
Guy RitchieCinematography:
Tim Maurice-JonesComposer:
John MurphyCast:
Jason Statham, Stephen Graham, Alan Ford, Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Rade Serbedzija, Robbie Gee, Lennie James, Vinnie Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Jason Flemyng (more)VOD (2)
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When a dizzying robbery takes place in the Orthodox Jewish diamond district, a flawless 86-carat gem, the size of an infant's fist, is lifted in the snatch. Taking it to London, the diamond's thief and courier, Franky Four Fingers arrives in the city as a stopover en route to New York to deliver the huge diamond to his bigwig crime boss, Avi. But because Franky can't resist temptation and London is a town with its share of illegal trade, a small crowd of miscreants and malefactors eventually ends up chasing each other and the whereabouts of the diamond. These include: Doug the Head, a jeweler who pretends he's Jewish because it's good for business; Boris the Blade, a Russian gangster with a deserved reputation for being impossible to kill; Bullet Tooth Tony, a legendary hard guy and Brick Top, perhaps the scariest of the lot. (official distributor synopsis)
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A very good film. Very funny, sometimes suspenseful, with good monologues and dialogues... If only it wasn't so "overbuilt". Although perhaps everyone who appears in Ritchie's film has a role written in such a way that they should be easy to remember, it's not quite a piece of cake. The last half hour requires a lot of concentration to remember how it was at the beginning, who was calling who and who was hired for what... I’m lucky that I'm in the mood to watch Snatch again, because the second time around I'll hopefully figure it all out.
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The most entertaining gangster flick ever – whether due to Ritchie's unapologetic style or the subversive story that is more of a backdrop for the incredible cast of brilliantly written and acted characters to have their fill. The direction is simply superb, with an entertaining staging that embellishes scenes that must be outrageously funny even on paper, and a ball-busting editing that gracefully brings together a large cast of characters who gradually converge towards a common goal. Add to that a brilliant soundtrack and the aforementioned actors, among whom stand out the gypsy Pitt and the iconic Rade Šerbedžija, who is harder to kill than Chuck Norris. This film has paid for Ritchie’s immortality, at least the editing of not few modern movies would look pretty different without his example.
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It was a mistake to put this thing in the player, Guy Ritchie simply isn't my cup of tea, and Snatch is another supposedly cool tough-guy movie that simply didn’t interest me; even the dark humor didn't sit well with me. The plot is okay (although there are a lot of characters and they often get mixed up), Brad Pitt is decent in the role of a Gypsy with an unforgettable accent, but the rest are just the same old recycled stories. The disgustingly British accent really annoyed me, but of course, the film can't be blamed for that. A genuinely solid cast that unfortunately is completely off in terms of genre, filmmaking, and stylistic choices for me.
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Guy Ritchie simply has a gift. Besides having great actors around him, he also has the gift of being action-packed, funny, and his films also look good. He has an interesting camera, interesting editing, but above all, an interesting enough screenplay that relies on dialogue, but the viewer will also enjoy what they see, that is, action and events. It could be said that he is the British Tarantino, but I still have the feeling that it is primarily a fun film that doesn't try to communicate something too complicated. I accept that, it's good, but to give it a truly maximum rating, it would need more.
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A very elegantly shot black comedy, which, with its rough poetics, evokes certain Quentin Tarantino moments, but thanks to its very distinctive design and cut, it maintains its own style. Although the plot is quite trivial, Guy Ritchie managed to break it down with various tricks (the most important of which is the shifting narrator and the editing) so that the film keeps the viewer on his toes until the last right hook comes from a really surprising side. In some passages, Snatch suffers from typical Tarantino awkwardness and self-purpose (maybe let's call it cool violence), but in others it has excellent characters (Brad Pitt is amazing again!), decent gags or top-notch situations. The film also has stylish and great-fitting music that is able to channel the atmosphere – a great example is the song “MASSIVE ATTACK", which freezes the smile on your lips a little. In short, Guy Ritchie was able to handle the genre much better than most other gangsta poetics worshippers and made a film that is a joy to watch.
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