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Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Jason Statham, Stephen Graham, Alan Ford, Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Rade Serbedzija, Robbie Gee, Lennie James, Vinnie Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Mike Reid.
This criminal-action/comedy is a masterpiece thanks to Guy Ritchie’s dialog, which is undoubtedly some of the best ever put on film. There is a real risk,however, that you will find yourself quoting the movie to friends, in the know, all the damn time! I think I need a twelve step program to stop. The story is simple, but blasts off right from the first scene and is intricately intertwined with an ensemble of memorable characters, and pumped up with a dizzying pace, and innovative direction.
The story bursts out of the gate with Freddy Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) leading the robbery of a massive diamond, while Turkish (Jason Statham) is both setting up a bare knuckle boxing match along with fellow promoter, Brick Top (Alan Ford), and planning the purchase of a more suitable caravan from an unintelligible pikey (gypsy) played by Brad Pitt. Soon the diamond has been stolen from the thief, the match is off, the caravan deal is fouled up and gangsters, criminals, dogs, pigs, pikies and a Russian named Boris the Bullet Dodger are all mixed up in a mess packed with action, violence, one-liners and cool comebacks.
Some viewers complain about the accents, but they didn’t bother me. I guess that’s what subtitles are for. Many of the actors were also in Ritchie’s previous film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and some of the scenes’ dialog and characters are likewise similar, so if you if you liked that one, you should see the other, but Snatch is the better of the two. This is one of my very favourite films, and I recommend it for anyone who isn’t offended when violence and comedy come together.
Snatch Movie Quotes
“You’re always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together… And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it’s no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs.”
“It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey was a gypsy bare-knuckle boxing champion. Which makes him harder than a coffin nail. Right now, that’s the last thing on Tommy’s mind. If Gorgeous doesn’t wake up in the next few minutes, Tommy knows he’ll be buried with him. Why would the gypsies go through the trouble of explaining why a man died in their campsite when they can bury the pair of them and just move camp? It’s not like they got social security numbers, is it? Tommy – the tit – is praying. And if he isn’t, he fucking should be.”
“…the fact that you’ve got “Replica” written down the side of your gun, and the fact that I’ve got Desert Eagle point five written down the side of mine, should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now… Fuck off!”
Movie Lines from Snatch
July 27th, 2008 at 8:32 am
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