![]() You just might meet him if you carry on like that." "Sorry, didn't know your father."Īnd Harry answers: "Never mind, son. ![]() "You must be Harry," Eddie coolly remarks. The dialogue sets the humorously hard-boiled tone, as when these two first meet, and Eddie is introduced as J.D.'s son. Moriarity), a shrewd old pornography merchant and crime boss. Stolen merchandise on London sidewalks and other dubious pursuits, they help him enter a secret high-stakes game run by Hatchet Harry (P.H. Eddie is a card shark, and because his pals are tired of selling ![]() Perhaps Eddie qualifies as the main character because Sting plays his father, a bar owner named J.D., and because it's Eddie's gaffe that gets the ball rolling. Thick accents, desaturated brownish color and 20-odd actors with comparably important roles don't do much to alleviate this mild confusion. Ritchie brings on Eddie (Nick Moran), Tom (Jason Flemying), Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher) as if they were the "Trainspotting"Ĭrew, but the story soon begins to lose them in the shuffle. The closest it comes to heroes are the four savvy young con men whom the film introduces first. The fact that this story has almost no center at all. The commercial aspects also deflect attention from Touches like that, along with flashy, random shifts of film speed and a true rogues' gallery of striking if one-note characters, do hold interest even if they have no real right to. Music heightens the intensity of the moment, well, why not? And if that means having them all arm for battle while the "Zorba the Greek" theme Ritchie is skillful enough to make a fine feat of macho gamesmanship out of the way four sets of East End crooks keep outsmarting one another. The punchy little flourishes that load this English gangster film with attitude are perfectly welcome, because there's no honest, substantial part of the movie they can hurt. Looking for loot: From left, Jason Statham, Nick Moran and Dexter Fletcher are among the London crooks who keep outsmarting one another in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," the first feature written and directed by Guy Ritchie.Īnd for once that doesn't hurt. Uy Ritchie's brash, ebullient direction of his first feature, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," makes it very obvious that he honed his style making Selected Scenes and Trailer From the Film.The New York Times on the Web: Current Film.'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels': Keeping the Thugs in Constant MotionįILM REVIEW 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels': Keeping the Thugs in Constant Motion
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