Hello again my dear readers!!
On the contrary to previous weeks, this week, I'll be talking about a relatively older movie. This week's film is a 2000 English crime movie written and directed by Guy Ritchie (Madonna's ex-husband). Its name is "Snatch" and has a great cast including Jason Statham, Benicio Del Toro and Brad Pitt.
The movie contains two different plots which are connected to one another after some point. The first plot focuses on a fist-sized diamond which is stolen by Frankie Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) in Belgium and then brought to London. Though Four Fingers brings the diamond to a group of Jewish money launderers, different illegal figures of London claim the diamond for themselves.
The second plot revolves around the relationship between an unlicensed boxing promoter named Turkish (Jason Statham) and a Londoner crime boss, Brick Top (Alan Ford), who is known for feeding those who fall out of his favour to his prized pigs. One day, Brick Top's boxer Gorgeous George dies in a dispute with a gypsy man named Mickey (Brad Pitt) over a caravan. Then, Brick Top accuses Turkish about this incident and Turkish finds himself in a big amount of debt to him. As a result, to improve the situation, Turkish and his partner decide to use Mickey as the boxer.
Eventually, these two plots intertwine and become one humorous and active story full of action. I won't give any other spoilers.
"Snatch", being the third movie of Guy Ritchie, received some criticism since the story was almost identical as Ritchie's second movie, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". However, the movie was very successful at the box office, having won about $50 million totally in US and UK.
Apart from these, the movie resembles Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, inasmuch as both movies deal with underworld criminals, valuable items and boxers.
In conclusion, if you like crime movies with original scripts and famous actors, I would definitely recommend this movie!!
Here is the trailer:
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