A movie I enjoyed and still has me a bit perplexed. A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns. A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Chuck in a couple of clueless scousers and u get all the ingredients for a right old mess. After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her. The Top 200 Movies as Rated by Women on IMDb in 2018, Stream IMDb Top 250 Movies on Prime Video, Paul Rudd: Top 10 Heist Films I've Never Seen, IMDb Poll Board Users' Top 10 Movies Since 1970. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998):Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash. from Lock Stock - Duration: 1:17. I think I may have tried to watch this once before with little to no interest and obviously did not finish it. Overall I think I prefer the original version, and this is of curiosity value and interest, but no doubt this was fresh and original at the time and remains an essential viewing. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) . Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2016. But they subsequently find themselves owing a half-million pounds to the local gang leader Hatchet Harry. When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, drawing in the entire London underworld into a feeding frenzy at a time when the old criminal regime is losing turf to a wealthy foreign mob. No one is really trying to be extraordinarily funny, but again it is the balance between being menacingly serious and funny that the humor really flies at you. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. The characters work to simultaneously well with each other and the roles played seem so natural. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels - Various: Amazon.de: Musik Whlen Sie Ihre Cookie-Einstellungen Wir verwenden Cookies und hnliche Tools, um Ihr Einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern, um unsere Dienste anzubieten, um zu verstehen, wie die Kunden unsere Dienste nutzen, damit wir Verbesserungen vornehmen knnen, und um Werbung anzuzeigen. 'And there's one more thingit's been emotional'. Superb acting. With Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham. Lots of laughs and wondering, "oh, what next can possibly happen?" Trending. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Megan Fox. They are all projected as 'cool' yet the situation is always out of their control. Enjoy! I have to disagree. Home Video Trailer from PolyGram Video. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. But after reading how Jason Statham used to do the con artistry featured in the beginning of the movie for real on the streets of London and other gossip about his start in movies, and seeing that the latest Sherlock Holmes incarnation with Robert Downey Jr. had been directed by Guy Ritchie, the same guy who directed here, I decided to give it a try. Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. This was an enormously entertaining comic caper film that I have to say was completely unexpected.