Your weekend movie: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

For this weekend, I give you one of my favorite movies in the Guy Ritchie canon, and in the British gangster films canon.

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels features the misadventures of four East End chaps trying to figure out how to get ahead in life. This was Jason Statham as he can be directed, not when he’s aiming for action hero. He’s not someone who works well as a sole carrying actor, but he always shines in an ensemble cast like this one.

It’s dramatic, funny, bloody, and fast paced, and one of my top 20 films, and it’s on Hulu.com, so you can watch the entire thing like one long youtube clip, and I’ve embedded it below.

It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, mind you. But if you liked Snatch, you may well thoroughly enjoy this movie. Maybe you could consider him an English, a little bit more humorous/toned down version of Quentin Tarantino…

It is an ‘R’ rated movie, so HULU does ask you to login for ‘R’ movies, I apologize for that if you don’t already have an account.

Filed under the topic Movies on December 19th 2008 at 2:39 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.