This crime movie, "Snatch"
(the movie's title alludes to a robbery, not
what you're thinking) starts energetically,
progresses energetically and ends energetically.
This is a film about lowlife villains either
organising underground boxing matches, chasing
a McGuffin, in this particular case a blagged
giant diamond, or both. There are down-at-heel
underground fight managers, cocky cockney gangsters,
incompetent yardie types, dodgy diamond-dealing
Jews, an enigmatic Uzbekistanian crook and cheeky
gyppos. To a huge extent, this film either romanticises
these villains, makes them look cool (the characters
played by the American actors were given irritatingly
cool parts, as usual), or at least makes them
sympathetic characters.
In Snatch the London criminals
were often unarmed with ballistic weapons. This
led to far more interesting and intimate confrontations
than the endless dull gun fights you see in
American set films. Even more admirable is the
arch villain of the piece: this film is infested
by the best baddie I have seen at the flicks
for years, a real cockney bast**d, which ever
way you slice it. His evil pontification on
pigs is a stunner. This is the treasure a real
actor, not some poncey "star", can
bring to the table.
Snatch is certainly not about
realism. This film is not really concerned with
morals either, and despite its copious, bone-crunching
violence, it is not even about violence. It
is about laughs. The comedy is plot-driven,
dialog-driven, visually-driven and character-driven.
It works brilliantly. This flick, despite overrating
the criminal parasites and particularly if you
can bear its cockney accents, is a scream. The
scene with Vinny Jones in the pub was worth
seeing the film for alone.
The
pigs escape to freedom.
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