Criminal Christmas # 20 – Snatch
Snatch is the tale of two small time boxing promoters who get in over their heads, lose their boxer, find a champion gypsy boxer to take his place, and then things get interesting! Throw in some Jewish jewelers, criminals, a bookmaker who likes to feed his pigs……with people, a large diamond that has just been stolen, oh and a pit bull.
The followup to Lock Stock…, Snatch is a wonderful confusion of plots, characters and craziness. Jason Statham in his first lead role, Vinnie Jones as, wait for it, a violent psycho, and Brad Pitt as an unintelligible gypsy boxer are just some of the great cast for this movie.
Brad Pitt is so different to any other movie you have seen him in that you just have to see it to believe it. When he talks, you know he has said something but you struggle to know what, which makes his character all the more fun to watch.
There are so many other known names in this movie such as Benicio Del Toro and Dennis Farina that the movie feels bigger than it actually is. As with Lock, Stock…, things appear to be set perfectly and then things starting going wrong for the main characters and before you know it, there is a lot of running around looking for a diamond, a boxer, and trying to avoid being eaten by pigs.
Another great movie, the perfect followup to Lock, Stock..
