JosephGabriel
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Guy Ritchie's tale is a good one, not too graphic with the gore, unlike later similar films involving some members of this cast, including Football Factory and Mean Machine. The characters are quirky and their off-hand humour fits in well, contrasting against the dark reality of the times and the place they live in.
The four lads at the centre of this film are no fools, naive and a little misguided maybe. But they do have a bit of something to them. Their greed leads them on a path of destruction and danger. Brought up in the East End of London, surrounded by gangsters and criminals. This is a place where `Hatchet' Harry Lonsdale rules with an iron fist.
Using his top muscle; Barry the Baptist (Lenny McLean), Harry rarely needs get his hands dirty, unless it's beating someone to death with a 15 inch black dildo.
Enter Eddy (Nick Moran), a lad blessed with some talent for cards. With his three comrades, Soap (Dexter Fletcher), Tom (Jason Flemyng) and Bacon (Jason Statham), managing to scoop up enough money to enter a high-stakes poker game, they think that they are guaranteed to win, but if they did then it would obviously be a very short film. Eddy enters the lion's den and just like the christians in ancient rome, Eddy gets eaten alive. Finding himself suddenly owing £500,000 or losing his fingers, time is very short to find a way to pay back the money.
Looking into a variety of scams and ideas, they eventually come up with one idea. Robbing their neighbours. Obviously they never got the memo saying 'Don't shit on your own doorstep'. They come up with a plan to rob the robbers that live next door after a raid on the home of 3 dopey, yet well spoken cannabis cultivators.
Just before these stoners move the cash from their ever lucrative sales, it's taken by one gang, and then stolen by the other...suddenly they're in a fantastic position and it looks like they'll be keeping their fingers. Or will they...
This film is not the typical stoner movie as some might think of it. The humour is easily missed because of it's dry nature and the fact that it's routed in something that not many international audiences have too much knowledge of, East End gang culture. For someone not familiar with the cockney-wide-boy type personality, the humour could easily be lost.
A typical Vinnie Jones movie, who also stars in this film as some hired muscle. If you like other films that he's in, chances are you will LOVE this one. It bears a few similarities to the directing styles of the Coen Brothers and also a taste of Quentin Tarntino in there with the style and artistic use of the camera.
A good watch but beware, if you don't like the first 20 minutes, chances are you'll hate the rest.
A great film if you're baked and chilling out, but if you're looking for a gutwrenching laughing session, this probably isn't the film for you.
The four lads at the centre of this film are no fools, naive and a little misguided maybe. But they do have a bit of something to them. Their greed leads them on a path of destruction and danger. Brought up in the East End of London, surrounded by gangsters and criminals. This is a place where `Hatchet' Harry Lonsdale rules with an iron fist.
Using his top muscle; Barry the Baptist (Lenny McLean), Harry rarely needs get his hands dirty, unless it's beating someone to death with a 15 inch black dildo.
Enter Eddy (Nick Moran), a lad blessed with some talent for cards. With his three comrades, Soap (Dexter Fletcher), Tom (Jason Flemyng) and Bacon (Jason Statham), managing to scoop up enough money to enter a high-stakes poker game, they think that they are guaranteed to win, but if they did then it would obviously be a very short film. Eddy enters the lion's den and just like the christians in ancient rome, Eddy gets eaten alive. Finding himself suddenly owing £500,000 or losing his fingers, time is very short to find a way to pay back the money.
Looking into a variety of scams and ideas, they eventually come up with one idea. Robbing their neighbours. Obviously they never got the memo saying 'Don't shit on your own doorstep'. They come up with a plan to rob the robbers that live next door after a raid on the home of 3 dopey, yet well spoken cannabis cultivators.
Just before these stoners move the cash from their ever lucrative sales, it's taken by one gang, and then stolen by the other...suddenly they're in a fantastic position and it looks like they'll be keeping their fingers. Or will they...
This film is not the typical stoner movie as some might think of it. The humour is easily missed because of it's dry nature and the fact that it's routed in something that not many international audiences have too much knowledge of, East End gang culture. For someone not familiar with the cockney-wide-boy type personality, the humour could easily be lost.
A typical Vinnie Jones movie, who also stars in this film as some hired muscle. If you like other films that he's in, chances are you will LOVE this one. It bears a few similarities to the directing styles of the Coen Brothers and also a taste of Quentin Tarntino in there with the style and artistic use of the camera.
A good watch but beware, if you don't like the first 20 minutes, chances are you'll hate the rest.
A great film if you're baked and chilling out, but if you're looking for a gutwrenching laughing session, this probably isn't the film for you.
