Snatch (2001)

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Ritchie may be skilled at generating controlled chaos, but his surprise-a-minute strategy ultimately holds no surprises.

April 15, 2008 Full Review | Comments (2)

Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Ritchie's follow-up to Lock, Stock is an even more craftily concocted underworld entertainment, helped no end by the casting of Pitt as the bare-knuckle boxer Mickey.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Wally Hammond

Time Out

Top Critic

This may be one of the hazardous offshoots of the music-video-trained generation of moviemakers; they confuse a diet of eye candy with a full meal.

September 26, 2002 Full Review | Comments (2)

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Bouncing around in a world of bare-knuckle boxing, gypsy swindlers, pretend Jewish diamond merchants, indestructible Russian assassins and a thug who disposes of bodies by feeding them to hungry pigs, Snatch has enough plots for a fair-sized cemetery.

March 22, 2002 Full Review

Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

He's not breaking new ground with Snatch, merely fine-tuning the knack for disreputable kicks he showed in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

June 4, 2001

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

The cinematic dazzle, the high pitch to which he leads his actors, the relish of sheer velocity are reward enough.

March 8, 2001

Stanley Kauffmann

The New Republic

Top Critic

An entertaining romp of a crime caper flick that wants to be funny more than it wants to be dangerous or mysterious.

February 26, 2012 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Eccentric characters, lively banter, adults only.

January 2, 2011 Full Review

M. Faust

Common Sense Media

Snatch uses and abuses the template of its breakthrough predecessor, elevates it, and delivers an equal, if not better, version of a film we have all seen before, yet much better the second time around.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

Of the ensemble, only Pitt truly shows his class, delivering an amusing yet emotive performance amongst a group of actors who -- at best -- are pandering to laddish culture.

April 15, 2008 Full Review | Comments (8)

Film4

It's a twisting, witty, and wise crime-boxing story about the hunt for a huge diamond and a prizefighter who can't take a fall.

May 26, 2006 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Ritchie's two lockstep debut movies [are] exceedingly, willfully flamboyant exercises in masturbatory style.

February 19, 2006 Full Review | Comments (4)

Brent Simon

Now Playing Magazine

...an ideal follow-up to writer/director Guy Ritchie's debut effort, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

January 15, 2006 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Snatch is a full-throttle comedic crime caper that more than resembles Lock, Stock... yet remains a rollicking good time in its own right.

December 6, 2005 Full Review

Michael Dequina

Film Threat

Madonna's husband is a dervish in the editing room, and he's not ashamed to have nicked most of the conventions of American noir.

January 29, 2005 Full Review

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Fortunately, the drop in entertainment value from one Ritchie film to the next isn't as steep as the drop in originality.

January 10, 2005 Full Review

Jeffrey Westhoff

Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

It's rather like the favorite pastime of this movie's villain ... throwing wild dogs into a pit and watching them fight until there's only one left standing.

December 6, 2004 | Comments (2)

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

This is a swift, sharp picture that pleases the senses on all levels, ranging from the visual to the aural, the linguistic, and yes even the intellectual.

February 10, 2004 Full Review

Spence D.

IGN Movies

• 1. Turkish: He loves that dog. Always playing silly games.
  – Submitted by Ah-lick L (54 days ago)
• 1. Vinny: Did he have four fingers?
  2. Sol: I'm sorry, I couldn't get the bi-noc-u-lars out in time.
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• 1. Tommy: Are you saying I can't shoot?
  2. Turkish: No Tommy, I'm not saying you can't shoot. I know you can't shoot. I'm saying that six-pound piece of shit stuck in your trousers would do more damage if you fed it to him.
  – Submitted by Ah-lick L (54 days ago)
• 1. Sol: You ain't from this planet are you, Vincent? Who is gonna mug two black fellas, holding pistols, sat in a car that is worth less than your shirt?
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• 1. Brick Top: You're on thin fucking ice my pedigree chums and I shall be under it when it breaks. Now, fuck off.
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• 1. Turkish: Look at it. How am I suppose to run this thing from that? We'll need a proper office. I want a new one, Tommy. You're going to buy it for me.
  2. Tommy: Why me?
  3. Turkish: Well, you know about caravans.
  4. Tommy: How's that?
  5. Turkish: You spent the summer in one, which means you know more than me. And i don't want to have my pants pulled down over the price.
  6. Tommy: What's wrong with this one?
  7. Turkish: Oh nothing, Tommy. It's tiptop. It's just I'm not sure about the colour.
  – Submitted by Ah-lick L (54 days ago)

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