Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

British writer Guy Ritchie made his feature directorial debut with this crime-caper comedy-drama set in London’s East End and heavy on the Cockney dialogue (with one scene in subtitled Cockney rhyming slang). A big-bucks scheme goes awry: Cardsharp Eddy (Nick Moran) and pals Bacon (Jason Statham), Tom (Jason Flemyng), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher) scuffle to pile up enough money to put Eddy at the card table opposite gangland porn lord Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty). Unfortunately, the whole plan backfires, leaving Eddy owing Harry a huge sum, payable within the week. In truth, Harry hopes to acquire the bar run by his rival, J.D. (Sting), who is Eddy’s father. To raise the cash, Eddy sets out to steal from a marijuana business run by Winston (Steven Mackintosh), but the inevitable gunplay doesn’t make for an easy heist. World premiere at the 1998 Edinburgh Film Festival (Focus on British Cinema)., London-based gangster movie directed by Guy Ritchie. Tom (Jason Flemyng) and his three friends find enough money to take on Hatchet Harry (PH Moriarty) in a poker game but Tom’s cheated out of his money and runs up a huge debt. To avoid the loss of some digits, the four have to come up with a money-making scheme and, as luck would have it, an overheard conversation, two priceless antique shotguns and a rich drug dealer might just get them out of trouble., Cockney boys Tom, Soap, Eddie, and Bacon are in a bind. They owe seedy criminal and porn king ‘Hatchet’ Harry a sizable amount of cash after Eddie loses half a million in a rigged game of poker. Hot on their tails is a thug named Big Chris who intends to send them all to the hospital if they don’t come up with the cash in the allotted time. Add into the mix an incompetent set of ganja cultivators, two dim-witted robbers, a ‘madman’ with an afro and a ruthless band of drug dealers and you have an astonishing movie called Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels., Tom and his three friends find enough money to take on Hatchet Harry (PH Moriarty) in a poker game but Tom’s cheated out of his money and runs up a huge debt. To avoid the loss of some digits, the four have to come up with a money-making scheme and, as luck would have it, an overheard conversation, two priceless antique shotguns and a rich drug dealer might just get them out of trouble. Tom (Jason Flemyng) and his three friends find enough money to take on Hatchet Harry (PH Moriarty) in a poker game but Tom’s cheated out of his money and runs up a huge debt. To avoid the loss of some digits, the four have to come up with a money-making scheme and, as luck would have it, an overheard conversation, two priceless antique shotguns and a rich drug dealer might just get them out of trouble., British writer Guy Ritchie made his feature directorial debut with this crime-caper comedy-drama set in London’s East End. A big-bucks scheme goes awry: Cardsharp Eddy and pals Bacon, Tom, and Soap scuffle to pile up enough money to put Eddy at the card table opposite gangland porn lord Hatchet Harry. Unfortunately, the whole plan backfires, leaving Eddy owing Harry a huge sum, payable within the week. In truth, Harry hopes to acquire the bar run by his rival, J.D., who is Eddy’s father. To raise the cash, Eddy sets out to steal from a marijuana business run by Winston, but the inevitable gunplay doesn’t make for an easy heist., The first and the best of the recent crop of modern London-based gangster movies, directed by Guy ‘Mr Madonna’ Ritchie. Tom and his three friends find enough money to take on Hatchet Harry in a poker game but Tom’s cheated out of his money and runs up a huge debt. To avoid the loss of some digits, the four have to come up with a money-making scheme and as luck would have it, an overheard conversation, two priceless antique shotguns and a rich drug dealer might just get them out of trouble. Fast-moving, elaborately plotted and with wonderful characters (including, of course, Vinnie Jones), this is intelligent filmmaking at its best., Stylish black comedy. Four Jack-the-lads steal from a gang of robbers, who happen to be their next-door neighbours, in a desperate bid to settle their gambling debts with a psychotic local gangster. Added to the already anarchic situation is an incompetent set of marijuana cultivators, two dim-witted robbers, a madman with an afro and a thug named Big Chris who intends to send them all to the hospital., Four lowlife Londoners have a week to pay back a fortune in poker losses to a vicious crime kingpin, so they decide to rip off neighborhood drug dealers., Four Jack-the-lads steal from a gang of robbers, who happen to be their next-door neighbours, in a desperate bid to settle their gambling debts with a psychotic local gangster. Added to the already anarchic situation is an incompetent set of marijuana cultivators, two dim-witted robbers, a madman with an afro and a thug named Big Chris who intends to send them all to the hospital., This raucous crime caper follows four Cockney lowlifes who scramble to pay off their gambling losses to a local gangster (P.H. Moriarty). When the four learn that neighborhood dealers have a stash of cash, they decide to rip them off., Slick, violent thriller in which four Jack-the-lads steal from a gang of robbers who happen to be their next-door neighbours in a desperate bid to settle their gambling debts with a psychotic local gangster. Featuring an impressive array of cameos, a sharp post-Britpop soundtrack and the film debut of footballing hard man Vinnie Jones.