Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Regisseur:

Guy Ritchie

Drehbuchautor:

Guy Ritchie (writer)

Premierendatum:

5. März 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie | Krimi | Thriller

Werbezeile:

A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere.

Plot:

Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.

Plot Keywords:

England | Stripper | British | Crime Comedy | London England

Filmpreise:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 13 wins & 6 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Have a butchers...

Besetzung

Jason Flemyng	...	Tom
Dexter Fletcher	...	Soap
Nick Moran	...	Eddie
Jason Statham	...	Bacon
Steven Mackintosh	...	Winston
Nicholas Rowe	...	J
Nick Marcq	...	Charles
Charles Forbes	...	Willie
Vinnie Jones	...	Big Chris
Lenny McLean	...	Barry the Baptist
Peter McNicholl	...	Little Chris
P.H. Moriarty	...	'Hatchet' Harry Lonsdale
Frank Harper	...	Dog
Steve Sweeney	...	Plank
Huggy Leaver	...	Paul

Alternativ:

Two Smoking Barrels (USA)
Bube Dame König grAs (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality and drug content.

Länge:

107 Min | 120 Min (director's cut)

Produktionsland:

UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Singapore:R(A) | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Canada:16+ (Québec) | Canada:18A | Chile:14 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:16 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIB | Iceland:16 | Ireland:18 | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R

Drehorte:

Bethnal Green Town Hall, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK

Firma:

HandMade Films

Dies und das:

Big Chris's line to Dog as he slams his head in the car door is "Never, ever in my life, has anyone been as fucking rude to me, as you, Dog! Fucking bastard!"

Pannen:

Filmfehler: When Eddie is in his father's car at the end, the scar on his head is not visible, but when it cuts to him walking through the streets to the pub, we can now see the bloody mark on his head.

Dialogzitate:

Eddie: That's quite a raise. That's 150 on my 100.
"Hatchet" Harry: Yeah. And is there anything else you want to say?

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Soundtrack:

Zorba's Dance

Have a butchers...

I was a total and complete sucker for this film.

If I were to write and direct a movie about gangsters or crime, this would be it. I wouldn't change one damn thing. Not a thing. Everything in this film was, to my eye, perfect - casting, the camerawork, the excellent dialogue ("It's been emotional.")

Now I don't have much to compare this to, and I've heard some criticism that it basically draws quite heavily from older British crime dramas. I've got a bunch of these on my queue to rent, but I doubt you could make a crime film better than this.

This film oozes with style, class, dark humor, plot twists and turns, and doesn't drag one bit. The casting and characterization is perfect, and Ritchie isn't afraid to move the cameras around; no pretense is really made here at "realism" - Ritchie doesn't mask the fact that it's a film and he runs with it.

I really don't think of myself as easily impressed, and I have seen a hell of a lot of films in my time, but this one instantly made my Top 10 after only a single viewing. Yes, I'm raving about it, and while it may not be "spiritually enriching" or contain any deep sociological content (which I actually do look for in films), somehow it still scores as one hell of a film; memorable and entertaining, and stands up well to multiple viewings.

I am a bit dismayed to see some of the marketing of this film comparing it to other things like Quentin Tarantino films or Trainspotting. It really does it a disservice because this film really is its own phenomenon and stands on its own two feet; if anything it is similar to Trainspotting and Tarantino films only because it actually has its own bold style.

Can't recommend it enough.