Snatch (2000)

Snatch (stylized as snatch.) is a 2000 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots: one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a sma

Directed by Guy Ritchie. With Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina. Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

Starring: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro Snatch (2000) Official Trailer 1 - Brad Pitt Movie Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a ...

Guy Ritchie's sophomore follow-up to his 1998 sleeper hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch revisits the previous film's territory of London's crime-ridden underbelly, and does so with the same brand of humor and stylish direction that made Ritchie's first effort a surprise success. With a labyrinthine plot that is ostensibly oriented around a missing diamond, Snatch introduces viewers to three groups of characters intent on retrieving the elusive stone, which has been stolen from an Antwerp jeweler. In the first group are friends and business partners Turkish (Jason Statham, who also supplies the film's voice-over narration) and Tommy (Stephen Graham), who join up with Mickey (Brad Pitt), an Irish gypsy and boxer. Turkish and Tommy make arrangements with Mickey to take a fall in a match engineered by lunatic gang leader Brick Top (Alan Ford). In another corner resides equally loony Russian gangster Boris the Blade (Rade Sherbedgia), who has asked Jewish gangster Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) to place a bet on the match for him. Boris is also scheming to have Sol (Lennie James), the owner of a pawn shop, rob the place with a couple of dim associates. Meanwhile, Avi (Dennis Farina), freshly arrived in London from New York, hires Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to find Franky when he goes missing; it seems that it was none other than Franky who was supposed to be transporting the purloined diamond to New York. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

Guy Ritchie is known for his crime films and the eccentric characters that in inhabit them. Making television commercials since leaving school, he directed his first short film in 1995 which impressed investors enough to back his first feature, the fast-moving crime comedy Lock,

Let's take a look back at Guy Ritchie's 2000 gangster epic Snatch, which I like to consider as the british Pulp Fiction !

Pop violence provides the backdrop for this offbeat crime thriller. Frankie Four Fingers pulls off a massive diamond heist only to set in motion a chain of events that brings together small-time boxing promoter Turkish, big-time villain Bullet Tooth Tony and hard-as-nails gypsy Mickey O'Neill. © 2000 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Pop violence provides the backdrop for this offbeat crime thriller. Frankie Four Fingers pulls off a massive diamond heist only to set in motion a chain of e...

In my review of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," Guy Ritchie's 1999 film, I wrote: "In a time when movies follow formulas like zombies, it's alive." So what am I to say of "Snatch," Ritchie's new film, which follows the "Lock, Stock" formula so slavishly it could be like a new arrangement of the same song? Once again we descend into a London underworld that has less to do with English criminals than with Dick Tracy. Once again the characters have Runyonesque names (Franky Four Fingers, Bullet Tooth Tony, Boris the Blade, Jack the All-Seeing Eye). Once again the plot is complicated to a degree that seems perverse. Once again titles and narration are used to identify characters and underline developments.