Snatch. (2000)
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Guy Ritchie's sophomore follow-up to his 1998 sleeper hit Lock, Stock,
and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch revisits the previous film's territory
of London's crime-ridden underbelly, and does so with the same brand of
humor and stylish direction that made Ritchie's first effort a surprise
success. With a labyrinthine plot that is ostensibly oriented around a
missing diamond, Snatch introduces viewers to three groups of characters
intent on retrieving the elusive stone, which has been stolen from an
Antwerp jeweler. In the first group are friends and business partners
Turkish (Jason Statham, who also supplies the film's voice-over
narration) and Tommy (Stephen Graham), who join up with Mickey (Brad
Pitt), an Irish gypsy and boxer. Turkish and Tommy make arrangements
with Mickey to take a fall in a match engineered by lunatic gang leader
Brick Top (Alan Ford). In another corner resides equally loony Russian
gangster Boris the Blade (Rade Sherbedgia), who has asked Jewish
gangster Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) to place a bet on the
match for him. Boris is also scheming to have Sol (Lennie James), the
owner of a pawn shop, rob the place with a couple of dim associates.
Meanwhile, Avi (Dennis Farina), freshly arrived in London from New York,
hires Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to find Franky when he goes
missing; it seems that it was none other than Franky who was supposed to
be transporting the purloined diamond to New York.
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