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SNATCH This One While You Can
SNATCH, the latest film from Guy Ritchie's catalogue, continues the rollicking line of English gangster cinema spawned by the writer/director. Once again, Ritchie manages to tie up all the loose ends of a variety of capers into one, big, package of corruption set in London and centered on one fist-sized stolen diamond. Pulling from the same crowd of actors in his last hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, the director almost creates a sequel. The film is full of talent, from the writing to the acting to the fantastic dialogue and on down even to the music.

SNATCH stars some of today's biggest actors such as Benicio DelToro (TRAFFIC; THE USUAL SUSPECTS) and Brad Pitt (LEGENDS OF THE FALL; SE7EN; FIGHT CLUB) as tiny, yet extremely important characters. Rarely do you find such talent filling in supporting roles in foreign films. But, both DelToro and Pitt portray their characters beautifully.

Pitt plays Mickey, a fast-talking, tattoo-sporting, gypsy bare-knuckle boxing champion who refuses to go down in a series of illegal boxing matches. DelToro stars as a Frankie Four Fingers, a Jewish gangster with some what of a gambling problem - he has debts he can't pay, so they give him the chop, hence the name. Cousin Avi (Dennis Farina) is another actor hailing from our hemisphere. Farina plays Frankie's cousin who hates England and hates the fact that he has to fly over there and get Frankie out of trouble.

But, though the semi-American supporting actors do give the movie that good bit of USA flavor, it is the English cast that really makes the flick. Turkish (Jason Statham) is a simple boxing promoter who is trying his hardest to avoid the crime lord of the illegal boxing world, Brick Top (Alan Ford). Brick Top is known for feeding those he doesn't like to the pigs. Boris the Blade (Rade Sherbedgia) is trying to steal Frankie's diamond, but Frankie is off gambling on unlicensed boxing. Meanwhile, Cousin Avi hires Bullet-Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones - GONE IN 60 SECONDS) to locate Frankie. Well before long, the entire state of affairs is so tangled up Ritchie himself could only put it right by killing off half the people involved, shoving the diamond down the mouth of a stray dog, and burning a few trailers. Don't understand what I could possibly be talking about? Rent this movie, and you'll get the picture.

The only foreseeable problem I can envision with this flick is that you'll probably have to watch it a couple of times before you finally get the real jist of it. Like Lock, Stock... it is impossible to take it all in on the first run-through. So, I recommend you grab a beverage and a companion of your choice (be it man, woman, or beast), slip this cinematic masterpiece into your DVD/VCR, prop your feet up on the coffee table, and get ready to feel the adrenaline as this super-charged crime caper gets your heart going and reminds us insane Americans of our fanatical UK roots.

Great, absolutely great
this movie is amazing. it is seriously one of my all time favorite movies. I seriously suggest that you watch it with subtitles cause you can't understand a thing these people say half the time. Its a very good movie but you should probobly watch it several times so you get what happens. Also its got a great soundtrack.

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