Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
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Film Cast:
- Franky Four Fingers: Benicio del Toro
- Cousin Avi: Dennis Farina
- Bullet Tooth Tony: Vinnie Jones
- Mickey O’Neil: Brad Pitt
- Boris “The Blade” Yurinov: Rade Šerbedžija
- Turkish: Jason Statham
- Darren: Jason Flemyng
- Tommy: Stephen Graham
- Brick Top Polford: Alan Ford
- Doug “The Head” Denovitz: Mike Reid
- Vincent: Robbie Gee
- Sol: Lennie James
- Mullet: Ewen Bremner
- Tyrone: Ade
- Errol: Andy Beckwith
- MC: Charles Cork
- Mum O’Neil: Sorcha Cusack
- John: Dave Legeno
- Bomber Harris: Trevor Steedman
- Himy: Yuri Stepanov
- The Russian: Velibor Topic
- Gypsy Man: Liam McMahon
- Policeman: Tim Faraday
- Boxer (uncredited): Elwin ‘Chopper’ David
- Neil: William Beck
- Rosebud: Sam Douglas
- Gorgeous George: Adam Fogerty
- Avi’s Colleague: Eric Meyers
- Gary: Jason Buckham
- Liam: Mickey Cantwell
- Alex: Nicola Collins
- Susi: Teena Collins
- Horrible Man: James Cunningham
- Jack: Mickey Dee
- Bad Boy Lincoln: Goldie
- Reuben: Sid Hoare
- Referee: Ronald Isaac
- Michael: Chuck Julian
- Charlie: Jason Ninh Cao
- Patrick: Paul O’Boyle
- Paulie: Jimmy Roussounis
- Pauline: Sidney Sedin
- Sausage Charlie: Peter Szakacs
- Salt Peter: John Taheny
- Mad Fist Willy: Mick Theo
- John the Gun: Andy Till
- Horace “Good Night” Anderson: Scott Welch
- Gypsy Man: Michael Hughes
- Gypsy Man: James Warren
- Gypsy Kid: Austin Drage
- Gypsy Kid: Liam Donaghy
- Gypsy Kid: Joe Williams
- Brick Top’s Henchman: John Farnell
- Brick Top’s Henchman: Shaun Pearson
- Brick Top’s Henchman: Dean Smith
- Brick Top’s Henchman: Roy Snell
- Policeman: Andrew Shield
- Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited): Guy Ritchie
- Pikey Man (uncredited): Alex Andreas
- Brick Henchman (uncredited): Dian Bachar
- Bouncer (uncredited): Sol Campbell
- Thug with Head Crushed in Door (uncredited): Tom Delmar
- Bricktop’s Henchman (uncredited): Christopher Fosh
- Bricktop’s Barman (uncredited): John Hathaway
- Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited): Arnold Montey
- Gypsy Man (uncredited): Tim Packham
- Irish Traveller (uncredited): Peter Rnic
Film Crew:
- Executive Producer: Steve Tisch
- Casting: Lucinda Syson
- Original Music Composer: John Murphy
- Writer: Guy Ritchie
- Producer: Matthew Vaughn
- Director of Photography: Tim Maurice-Jones
- Production Design: Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski
- Editor: Jon Harris
- Costume Design: Verity Hawkes
- Co-Editor: Les Healey
- Co-Producer: Michael Dreyer
- Prosthetics Sculptor: Barrie Gower
- Executive Producer: Stephen Marks
- Executive Producer: Peter Morton
- Music Consultant: Ian Neil
- Production Manager: Adam Bohling
- Executive Producer: Trudie Styler
- Music: Noel Gallagher
- Assistant Director: David Reid
- Costume Supervisor: Sharon Gilham
- Art Direction: Julie Philpott
- Set Decoration: Linda Wilson
- Makeup Artist: Jean Ann Black
- Sound Mixer: Simon Hayes
- Sound Effects Editor: Matthew Collinge
- Security: David Lindsay
- Stunt Double: Charles Jarman
- Chief Lighting Technician: Andy Duncan
- Production Coordinator: Emma Pike
- Storyboard Artist: Peter Wignall
- Special Effects Technician: Casper Lailey
- Script Supervisor: Mary Haddow
- Supervising Sound Editor: Danny Sheehan
- ADR Mixer: Darren McQuade
- Hairstylist: Belinda Parish
- Cableman: James Harris
- Unit Publicist: Nevette Previd
- Executive Producer: Angad Paul
- Associate Producer: Sebastian Pearson
- Associate Producer: Taha Ali Reza
- Assistant Art Director: Martin Foley
- Stunt Coordinator: Tom Delmar
- Costume Assistant: Nicki Varney
- Armorer: Charles Bodycomb
- Foley Artist: Diane Greaves
- Special Effects Supervisor: Ken Lailey
- First Assistant Editor: Paul Swinburne
- Key Hair Stylist: Pebbles
- Dialect Coach: Brendan Gunn
- Clapper Loader: Jake Marcuson
- ADR Voice Casting: Vanessa Baker
- Color Timer: David Rees
- Location Manager: Pat Karam
- Standby Painter: Tom Roberts
- Electrician: Ray Bateman
- Construction Coordinator: Dennis Wilson
- Grip: Terry Williams
- Additional Music: Bibs Ekkel
- Carpenter: Robert Park
- Driver: Fergus Cotter
- Property Master: Tom Pleydell-Pearce
- Second Unit Director: Mick Ward
- Stand In: Bill Hickey
- Transportation Captain: Simon Barker
- Production Accountant: Maurice Landsberger
- Researcher: Willi Geiger
- Boom Operator: Arthur Fenn
- Score Engineer: Daniel L. Griffiths
- Assistant Editor: Peter Dansie
- Head of Production: Michael Elson
- Dressing Prop: Peter Burden
- Supervising Carpenter: Philip Smith
- Title Designer: Ian Cross
- Camera Trainee: Elizabeth Hoar
- Focus Puller: Stuart Graham
- Casting Assistant: Emma Engers
- Assistant Location Manager: Giles Edleston
- Art Department Production Assistant: Sandra Fattorre
- Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Richard Oxley
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Debbie Ninnis
- Compositing Artist: Paul Conway
- Production Assistant: Sarah Gellately-Smith
Movie Reviews:
- John Chard: In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary… come again?
Snatch seems to be one of those spunky British gangster films that critics are divided on, yet it’s loved by the target audience. Guy Ritchie has done a Sam Raimi, he has remade the first film that put him on the cinematic map. Where Raimi remade The Evil Dead, and just called it Evil Dead II, Ritchie cheekily tries to get away with remaking Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and calling it Snatch. Sure the circumstances in plotting are different, and there’s a big American star brought in to beef things up for the global market, but it’s the same movie and without doubt it’s lazy film making. But it still – like Evil Dead II – Rocks!
Snatch in story terms is concerned with a big diamond that stitches together a number of threads involving the London underworld. Some rough and tough Romany types join in the fun, headed by a purposely illegible Brad Pitt, while Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro and Rade Serbedzija add more cosmopolitan meat to the crooks and gangster stew. The British cement holding the building up comes in the twin forms of Jason Statham and Stephen Graham, with Vinnie Jones once again turning up to frighten the masses. Everything from bare knuckle fighting to bumbled robberies – to dog fighting and shifty arcade empires – are here, with Ritchie writing characterisations that positively boom off of the screen.
As with “Lock-Stock”, the beauty is in the way violence and humour are deftly blended. Scenes are often bloody but also bloody funny, a pearl of dialogue is never far away from a perilous situation. The comic tone is more close to the knuckle here, Ritchie having fun toying with ethnic and machismo stereotypes, while he brings his bag of visual tricks before it got boring. The narrative is deliciously complex, but much credit to Ritchie for the way he pulls all the threads neatly together in a whirl of scene splicing and cocky literary assuredness.
So it’s “Lock-Stock 2” then! No bad thing if you happen to be a fan of that sort of wide boy malarkey. If you don’t like it? Then jog on sunshine. 8/10