Snatch DVD Review

Snatch was crazy. I saw this before but copped it again recently. Guy Ritchie really did his thing. If your a young filmmaker you should have seen this already. An MTV Style, fast paced, cool indie style English feature follow up to the also hip, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells" ( another favorite of mine, infact, I almost like it better..storywise anyway.) It's a heist/ fixed boxing match story revolving around diamonds and criminal characters in England. Brad Pitt makes costars along with Benecio Del Toro and some repeats from ' Smoking Barrells'.(Unfortunately the 'Guvnor' passed away prior to Snatch. I'm sure he would have beeen included.
Anyway, the shots are great, its always interesting and exciting, good dialogue,unique, great characters. The accents and slang definitely lend it something too. There's no solid stories but its interesting none the less. The Crime Boss, Brick Top(Alan Ford ) is believably evil and twisted. Brad Pitt seems totally comfortable in his character's skin. The leads do a cool job, particularly Jason Statham(Transpoter fame). I particularly enjoyed Vinnie Jones's performance (as in the prequel) as Bullet tooth Tony. Good actor...why wasn't he anything else? Can't front...liked it a lot and the style was bananas.

Favorite Scenes : the intro style of the jews entering at the beginning cutting from monitor to monitor; All the boxing matches (the extremeness of Brad Pitt's character's boxing strength), the underwater scene during the last fight seemed ingenious to me;

What sucked? - The storyline was all over the place; The negative portrayal of the blacks in the movie. The black guys were the buffoons of the movie. What's up with that? It was kind of Stepin Fetchit/Wayans Brothers ish. Not feelin that Guy. . However, they were funny at times and did an okay job, especially the skinny fellow.( I recognize him also from the old British Jamaican TV Show - "Desmond. Funny show).

Special Features - It came with another disc filled with special features including 'the making of..' which was cool. Some of the deleted scenes were surprisingly goo The commentary was disappointing though. They didn't sound very interested and rarely touched on much film technique.

Rating - **** 4 bloody stars