Storyline
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
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Cast
Victor McGuire, Andrew Tiernan, Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Matthew Vaughn, Stephen Marcus, Vas Blackwood, Elwin 'Chopper' David, Danny John-Jules, Nick Moran, Rob Brydon, Alan Ford, Steven Mackintosh, P.H. Moriarty, Jake Abraham, Huggy Leaver, Nicholas Rowe, Lenny McLean, Frank Harper, Sting, Peter McNicholl, Nick Marcq, Tony McMahon, Steve Sweeney, Charles Forbes, Vera Day
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Reviews
90
Rolling Stone
A dynamite bundle from British writer-director Guy Ritchie. Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high.
80
Film Threat
Lock is filled with great writing, great acting, colorful characters, and a tight story. I actually like this film more than "Pulp Fiction".
80
New Times (L.A.)
Ritchie's showmanship--half macho braggadocio, half emotion-tinged bravura--slaps and tickles the viewer into submission. He takes a group of not-so-goodfellas, whose idea of fun is setting farts afire, and, against all odds, makes them lively and engaging.
80
Ritchie appears to have been paying attention to what made "Reservoir Dogs" (a huge hit in the UK) work, rather than coming away convinced that the formula for success begins and ends with pop-culture allusions and scarcely digested "homages" to classic crime films.
75
If the dialect is hard to comprehend, that soon becomes part of the joke. It's unlikely that even the British audiences who made Lock, Stock a big hit got it all.
