A brutally comic tale about a group of London friends who find themselves deep in debt to an East End tough, LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS is quick-paced, stylized, and highly entertaining. In his debut feature film, director-writer Guy Ritchie weaves a tangled web of shady, blithely eccentric characters and several storylines, all of them coming together in a gleeful explosion of murder and mayhem. When streetwise charmer Eddy (Nick Moran), the son of steely bar owner JD (Sting), botches a gambling scheme with his dad's nemesis, porn king Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), he's got one week to come up with 500,000 pounds or he loses his fingers--and so do his friends Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). While the pals scheme to make the money, Harry indulges his penchant for valuable antique shot guns, stolen for him by a couple of inept burglars. Soon the missing guns, a paranoid group of marajuana growers, a mean-spirited debt collector (Vinnie Jones) and his young son, and a violent bunch of thugs, are all thrown together in this tightly-woven, genuinely funny story that takes its inspiration from old British comic gangster flicks like THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN and more recent films like RESERVOIR DOGS and THE USUAL SUSPECTS.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Matthew Vaughn
EAN
0044005372724
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3946988
Product Key Features
Film/TV Title
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Director's Cut)
Actor
Dexter Fletcher, Vinnie Jones, Sting, Jason Flemyng, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh
Director
Guy Ritchie
Format
DVD
Language
English
Release Year
1999
Features
Outtakes\Additional Footage - 1. 9 minutes of extra footage\Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer\Interactive Menus
Genre
Action & Adventure
Run Time
115 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate
18
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Director of Photography
Tim Maurice-Jones
Reviews
Entertainment Weekly - Rating: A - Recommended, New York Times - ...Brash, ebullient direction....The punchy little flourishes that load this English gangster film with attitude are perfectly welcome....A fine feat of macho gamesmanship..., Sight and Sound - ...Stylised wildly at every turn...
Movie/TV Title
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (Director's Cut)