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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998
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Positive Reviews
19
Negative reviews
2
Average Rating
3.7
/5
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4.0
Its these kinds of heartwarming touches that nail Ritchie and Lock, Stock as two shivs in a gullet, violent visionaries with audacious, outrageous sen ..
Austin Chronicle
3.8
The soundtrack uses a lot of rock music and narration to flaunt its attitude, it keeps most of the violence off screen, and its not above throwaway ga ..
Rogerebert
4.0
It doesnt even try to hide its influences, with plenty of hinted homages to the many recent great crime films mixed into its lair of colorful characte ..
JoBlo
1.5
A Laurel and Hardy film would have looked like deep sardonic humor compared with this sophomoric effort.
Sover
3.5
The bullets fly and the body count is high, but most of the violence is off screen, so it doesnt seem as bad as it might sound.The dialogue is clever ..
Lariat
3.5
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
4.0
Further delighting are the many rounds of gags and a twisty ending that hits an ironic target. Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal
3.2
In the middle, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a strenuously cheeky, blackly comic heist picture the feature debut of writer director Guy Ritchie ..
Ew
3.5
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Salon
4.0
His way of diffusing violence with humor still definitely owes a little to Tarantino, but it works.
Common Sense Media
3.8
This short attention span direction could be due to Ritchies previous experience as a director of music videos.
Sf Gate
4.0
Even if flashy Ritchies tall tale about the East End underworld starts to run out of steam, the punch line is so good that it makes up for a lot.
Sf Gate
3.8
But even without keeping the original in mind, theres nothing shocking about the film or its climactic explosion of violence which can be directly att ..
Mr Brown Movies
4.0
The film also serves as the perfect introductory bridge to British cinema, because even though the scripts dialogue is deeply rooted in cockney slang, ..
Bullz-Eye
1.5
Ritchie handles his convoluted plot and frenetic pacing with elan and sprinkles it all with liberal doses of black humor and lots of quotable dialogue ..
Flickfilosopher
4.4
Ritchies style is direct and accomplished.Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels keeps moving; its kinetic, in your face filmmaking.
ReelViews
3.5
Theres something funny about the way British people say something funny.
Cnn
4.0
This cinematic roller coaster ride is also full of more twists and turns than a San Francisco hillside.
Deseret News
2.5
I suspect youll enjoy this picture if youre a fan of Quentin Tarantino, or even harsh action films like Ronin.
Ross Anthony
4.0
First time writer director Guy Ritchie has a giddy gift for storytelling.
News Week
4.5
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Rochester Goes Out
4.5
Its a funny, bright thriller that is an example of twisted perfection.Do yourself a favor and see it.
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