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- BuddiesCriminal HeroesCrime Gone AwryNothing Goes RightChaos and MayhemCons and ScamsHeistCrimes more...
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- ComedyCrime
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- 20th Century90s
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- London
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- Boys' Night
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- Dry Humor
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, 1998
English
UK
Profile of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels can be described as stylized, exciting, and humorous. The plot revolves around crime gone awry, chaos and mayhem, and a heist. Its comic aspect comes from dry humor. Its main genres are comedy and crime. In terms of style, it involves twists and turns. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. It is fast paced. It is located in London. It takes place in the 1990s. The soundtrack of it is R&B, punk, and rock. The movie has received attention for being a cult favorite, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves violent content.
Summary of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
A brutally comic tale about a group of London friends who find themselves deep in debt to an East End tough, LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS is quick-paced, stylized, and highly entertaining. In his debut feature film, director-writer Guy Ritchie weaves a tangled web of shady, blithely eccentric characters and several storylines, all of them coming together in a gleeful explosion of murder and mayhem. When streetwise charmer Eddy (Nick Moran), the son of steely bar owner JD (Sting), botches a gambling scheme with his dad's nemesis, porn king Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), he's got one week to come up with 500,000 pounds or he loses his fingers--and so do his friends Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). While the pals scheme to make the money, Harry indulges his penchant for valuable antique shot guns, stolen for him by a couple of inept burglars. Soon the missing guns, a paranoid group of marajuana growers, a mean-spirited debt collector (Vinnie Jones) and his young son, and a violent bunch of thugs, are all thrown together in this tightly-woven, genuinely funny story that takes its inspiration from old British comic gangster flicks like THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN and more recent films like RESERVOIR DOGS and THE USUAL SUSPECTS.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 5 March 1999 |
| Runtime: | 107 min |
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as Tom
as Soap
as Big Chris
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Critics Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Joshua Klein
Rolling Stone
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- by: Peter Travers
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- 07.January.2012
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- by: adventerer
- adventerer rated this movie
9/10Amazing
- 21.September.2010
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- by: drollix
- drollix rated this movie9/10Amazing
