The fact of the matter is, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is one of the most important British films in recent memory, or at least one of the most influential.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2025

What ensues is an ultimatum; a clumsy caper with so many characters they'd overwhelm a lesser movie; and a tremendous amount of mayhem that, while putting our boys squarely in the line of fire, really does stay aggressively this side of funny.

| May 25, 2022

...dense, impenetrable...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 30, 2021

Guy Ritchie's scrappy, twisty, cheerfully ultraviolent tale of hapless small-time English hoodlums might be his best work.

| Mar 26, 2019

The humor is as rude and crude as the characters, but the picture certainly isn't lacking in energy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2019

It roars and ignites and hits the ground running.

| Mar 21, 2019

There are far too many tokenistic soundtrack and cinematographic throws of the dice

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2019

A n inverse cost-to-quality ratio seems to have been operating in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," Guy Ritchie's debut feature about four cocky young men coming up against major thugs in London's East End.

| Apr 4, 2018

Fast-paced romp has violence, gangsters, drugs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2012

What his other movies have done summarily or languidly, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels does with some clear novice stumbles. It's creative and very clever. It's just not a classic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 3, 2009

Once you sort out the main characters and the plot kicks into action, it becomes clear that under the shameless M온라인카지노추천 pyrotechnics lies a structure as intricately crafted as a Feydeau farce. Guy Ritchie has a giddy gift for storytelling.

| Aug 18, 2008

I was thoroughly entertained while I was watching it, and I haven't hated myself since. And that is something, though I don't know exactly what.

| Apr 27, 2007

Expect plenty of laughs and some edge-of-your-seat sweats, but not a whole lot else.

| Feb 9, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2005

Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels est du trs bon cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 17, 2004

If only it could have resisted revelry in its own style and violence, it might have been one 1999's best films, due to its performances and clever plot twists.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Dec 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 8, 2004

Fans of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown are in for a treat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002