Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Critic Reviews

The acting, mostly by a bunch of unknowns, is equally fresh and funny, and Ritchie keeps the movie moving faster than you can say, "bludgeoned to death by a 15-inch black rubber dildo."Read the full review

A dynamite bundle from British writer-director Guy Ritchie. Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high.Read the full review

It's a superior thriller made with the guts and gusto that too many recycled entries into the genre fail to exhibit.Read the full review

A special weapon unto itself. Spring-loaded with cockney esprit, it peppers its audience with aggressive, sarcastic grapeshot. That's English for "fun," by the way.Read the full review

A considerable kick, though it would have helped if one of the boys had wiped off the lens of the camera once in a while.Read the full review

If the dialect is hard to comprehend, that soon becomes part of the joke. It's unlikely that even the British audiences who made Lock, Stock a big hit got it all.Read the full review

[It's] like Tarantino crossed with the Marx Brothers, if Groucho had been into chopping off fingers...Fun, in a slapdash way; it has an exuberance, and in a time when movies follow formulas like zombies, it's alive.Read the full review

The film's lures, while undeniable, are synthetic, and we never do learn what fuels all the greed besides pints of beer.Read the full review

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. The commercial aspects also deflect attention from the fact that this story has almost no center at all.Read the full review