Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Snatch | Mega Review

When you sit to watch a heist film, what is it that you exactly expect? ... thrill? action? adventure? …right? but what about comedy?? And that too not just for a few minutes, but from the first frame till the last!
Here we are talking about two of Guy Ritchie’s blockbusters, Lock stock and two smoking barrels, and Snatch. The two movies that brought in a new genre of movies …and that was of Guy Ritchie’s.

Lock stock basically deals with four friends who are trapped in a debt they take from a local smut for a game of gambling, which was fixed & Snatch is based on a search for a diamond, that involves groups of crooks from different geographies, with a backdrop of a boxing promoter under a gangster’s thumb.
If I start discussing the brilliant story of both these movies, I will need the entire edition to cover them up, coz they are an assortment of twists and turns. So, rather than elaborating the plot, I would just highlight the distinguishing factors, which put these two on an entirely different level of cinema.

The feature that attracts me the most is their dark humor, which keeps you happy even on their tragedies! You definitely would have seen a lot many comic flicks but trust me they are a different lot. They might not make you hold your stomach but they make sure that you keep on smiling till the end, and get surprised along with! There is no moment in the movie where you could feel that the comedy is being imposed on you. It just comes on to you naturally.

Another notable feature about them is that you cannot identify the protagonist. It’s an amalgamation of performances. Each one is unique and in turn uniquely contributes to the movie. Like for example the Russian, who cannot be killed, whatsoever! Or be it the Brad Pitt’s and his community’s accent, the so called ‘gypsies’, who pronounced ‘dogs’ as ‘daegs’! All the characters are wonderfully crafted and hold on to their spirit till the last cut.

Also you will witness a collection of coincidences, but none of then comes on with stupidity. They just go on with the flow and never give you a feeling that they are being desperately planted.

So if you have already had enough doze of tense flicks, here comes my advice. Go for these two, you are surely going to enjoy them.

Written by ‘Rishabh Shukla’