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Snatch

Snatch (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 138
Fresh: 100 | Rotten: 38

This movie is very similar in plot, style, and characters to Guy Ritchie's previous work, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but Snatch stands on its own as stylish, plot-twisting, frenetic entertainment.

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 12

This movie is very similar in plot, style, and characters to Guy Ritchie's previous work, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but Snatch stands on its own as stylish, plot-twisting, frenetic entertainment.

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Movie Info

Guy Ritchie's sophomore follow-up to his 1998 sleeper hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch revisits the previous film's territory of London's crime-ridden underbelly, and does so with the same brand of humor and stylish direction that made Ritchie's first effort a surprise success. With a labyrinthine plot that is ostensibly oriented around a missing diamond, Snatch introduces viewers to three groups of characters intent on retrieving the elusive stone, which has been stolen from an

R, 1 hr. 43 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Guy Ritchie

Jul 3, 2001

$30.1M

Columbia Pictures

Cast

All Critics (145) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (107) | Rotten (40) | DVD (38)

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

April 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment (1)
Chicago Reader
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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 Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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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 Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
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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 Comment
Rolling Stone
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The cinematic dazzle, the high pitch to which he leads his actors, the relish of sheer velocity are reward enough.

March 8, 2001 Comment
New Republic
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Ritche has nothing but fun with this movie and we get the feeling that the actors do the same.

February 9, 2001 Comment (1)
Good Morning America
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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 Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Eccentric characters, lively banter, adults only.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

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 Source: Film4 | Comments (7)

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 Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

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

February 19, 2006 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comments (3)

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 Source: Time Out | Comment

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

January 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
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 Source: Film Threat | Comment
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 Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
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 | Comment
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)
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 Source: IGN Movies | Comment
IGN Movies

Own [this single-disc edition]. Unless you already have the two-disc.

June 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | Comment
Needcoffee.com

There's just not a lot of fun to be had here. The plot is too convoluted, too filled with double-reversals and twists for us to turn our brains off, relax and watch Guy Ritchie's kinetic visual style.

May 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Blather | Comments (8)
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Audience Reviews for Snatch

The first 30 minutes or so were very hard to follow, there are a lot of characters, but once everyone is introduced and the story unfolds, the film is nothing but pure entertainment. Great cast, good characters, solid writing, and lots of action...Snatch. is a must see! Also, Brad Pitt is very good in this.

December 31, 2010
jamers2011
Jameson Worley

Super Reviewer

Funny and violent with a great performance from Brad Pitt. Full review later.

August 1, 2009
TomBowler
Thomas Bowler

Super Reviewer

    1. Turkish: Fuckface... I like that one Errol. I'll have to remember that one next time I'm climbing off yer mum.
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    1. Tommy: Who took the jam outta your doughnut?
    2. Turkish: You took the fucking jam outta my doughnut, Tommy. You did.
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    1. Doug the Head: We got sandy beaches.
    2. Avi: So who the fuck wants to see them?
    – Submitted by Jeremy F (3 months ago)
    1. Turkish: Fuck me all, Tom! What's that?
    2. Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
    3. Turkish: No, Tommy, there's a gun in your trousers. What is a gun doing in your trousers?
    4. Tommy: It's for protection!
    5. Turkish: Protection from what? Zee Germans?
    – Submitted by Audrey R (5 months ago)
    1. Bullet Tooth Tony: You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
    – Submitted by Lea L (11 months ago)

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