![]() ![]() After a number of dizzying twists, they end up having only a few days to come up with half a million pounds or else Barry will go after their fingers with one of Harry’s hatchets while casting covetous eyes at the bar owned by Eddie’s dad, JD (Sting). “Lock, Stock” wouldn’t be much of a movie if everything worked as these lads planned. They would be the entrepreneurial Tom (Jason Flemyng), the muscular Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher), so named because he’s the only one of the quartet who cares about keeping his hands at least metaphorically clean. Handsome Eddie (Nick Moran), a wizard with cards “since he could lift them,” wants in, and he gets three pals to match his 25,000-pound stake. Harry also runs a very high stakes card game where players need 100,000 pounds to pull up a chair. Moriarty, who played Razors in “The Long Good Friday”), one of the criminal pillars of the East End, someone equally at home selling sex toys or using them to beat people to death. So the key role of Barry the Baptist (so named because he next to drowns people to make them talk) went to Lenny McLean, a Cockney former bare-knuckle boxing champion, and debt collector Big Chris was played by Vinnie Jones, an ex-soccer star known for being a disciplinary problem.īoth of these men work for Hatchet Harry (P.J. Ritchie was particularly concerned in how he cast “Lock, Stock,” wanting to ensure that his actors had what he calls criminal credibility, that they looked as tough as they talked. Complications bounce off each other like bumper cars in a fun house as the film intercuts the exploits of half a dozen distinct groupings of incorrigible and amusing East End rogues. ![]() ![]() The feature debut of 30-year-old writer-director Guy Ritchie (currently so esteemed in Hollywood that Sony backed his next picture, “Diamonds,” without reading a finished script), “Lock, Stock” does several things well, starting with presenting a clever plot delirious enough to tempt viewers to diagram its farcical intricacies.įocusing on a quartet of young Londoners who get in over their heads with the local underworld and have to contend with a contingent of knuckle-headed desperadoes, “Lock, Stock” enjoys nothing more than being unexpected. A film that manages to be as clever, playful and mock violent as its title, “Lock, Stock” was a major hit in its native Britain and its cheeky tone, simultaneously calculated and off the cuff, is as hip as anyone could want. “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” is dark, dangerous and a great deal of wicked, amoral fun. ![]()
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