Snatch - Two Disc Set

Comedy, Crime

Brad Pitt	Mickey O'Neil
Ade
Jason Statham	Turkish
Alan Ford	Brick Top Polford
Vinnie Jones	Bullet Tooth Tony
Ewen Bremner	Mullet
Benicio Del Toro	Franky Four Fingers
Robbie Gee	Vincent
Lennie James	Sol
Dennis Farina	Cousin Abraham 'Avi' Denovitz
Rade Serbedzija	Boris 'The Blade' Yurinov (as Rade Serbedgia)

Director	Guy Ritchie
Producer	Matthew Vaughn
Writer	Guy Ritchie

Snatch, the follow-up to the Guy Ritchie's breakthrough film--the high-energy, expletive-strewn cockney-gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels--hardly breaks new ground being, well, another high-energy, expletive-strewn cockney-gangster movie. Okay, so there are some differences. This time around our low-rent hoodlums are battling over dodgy fights and stolen diamonds rather than dodgy card games and stolen drugs. There has been some minor reshuffling of the cast too with Sting and Dexter Fletcher making way for the more bankable Benicio Del Toro and Brad Pitt, the latter pretty much stealing the whole shebang as an incomprehensible Irish gypsy.

Moreover, no one can complain about the amount of extras featured on this DVD that includes 15 minutes of deleted scenes, a making-of documentary, trailer, storyboards, production notes and commentary from Ritchie himself. And, sure, people who really, really liked Lock, Stock--or have the memory of a goldfish--will really, really like this. The suspicion lingers, however, that if the director doesn't do something very different next time around then his career may prove to be considerably shorter than that of 'er indoors. --Clark Collis