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Snatch (2001)
Starring: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Madonna Director: Guy Ritchie
Usually it might seem a tad unfair to begin a review by referring to the director's missis.
But then the missis in question wouldn't usually be
Madonna -- a woman whose ability to reinvent herself several times before breakfast seems in marked contrast to that of hubby Guy Ritchie.
Certainly, this follow-up to the filmmaker'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.
OK, 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.
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 his
missis.
Other Formats: VHS,
VHS
subtitled in Spanish, DVD
with DTS Stereo, Theatrical
Snatch (Special Edition) (2001)
Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only) PLEASE NOTE: Some Region 1 DVDs may contain Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE). Some, but not all, of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs on what are called "region-free" DVD players. For more information on RCE, click here.
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Columbia Tri-Star
DVD Features:
- Commentary by Guy Ritchie
- Theatrical trailer(s)
2 discs
- Making Snatch featurette
- Deleted scenes
- Storyboard comparisons
- Video photo gallery
Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats
Number of discs: 2
Other Formats: VHS,
VHS
subtitled in Spanish, DVD
with DTS Stereo, Theatrical
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