Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 123movies

Watch: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily – seriously heavily – in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heroes decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	8.2/10 Votes: 582,370
	75% | RottenTomatoes
	66/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 5689 Popularity: 11.179 | TMDB

Reviews:

Far from being a good movie, with tons of flaws but already pointing to the pattern of the whole Ritchie’s filmography.

Genuinely one of my favorite movies of all time. Watched again recently and realised how well written, brilliantly shot, beautifully cast and cleverly produced this movie actually is!

Guy Ritchie’s Hilarious Feature Debut
This is one seriously funny movie. I’ve probably seen it close to 10 times and it hasn’t gotten old yet. Guy Ritchie brings us a hilarious look into the London criminal underground in one of his earliest features. The story revolves around four friends who become indebted to the local crime lord after a card game goes horribly wrong. The humor in this movie is sharp and fast-paced. At times, it becomes a little hard to keep up with the thick British accents and the cockney rhyming slang but overall, it doesn’t detract from the movie. The movie keeps you guessing as to the outcome when the story becomes complex with multiple lies and double-crosses but the ending satisfies.

This film marks the debuts of two of England’s coolest new actors: Jason Statham (who went on to do ‘Transporter’, among other movies) and Vinnie Jones (now a familiar cinema tough guy). Jones is especially good as Big Chris, debt collector/family man. The majority of the cast aren’t common faces in America (aside from Sting) but they all have the charisma to keep the audience interested. Another plus is the film’s soundtrack, ranging from reggae to 70’s soul. It adds to the movie’s already laid-back feel.

Everyone I’ve seen the movie with enjoys it (once they get past the thick accents, anyway) so I can say with confidence this is a fun movie. I recommend it to anyone looking for a good comedy and I feel this movie’s humor hits more often than it misses. I’d recommend giving this movie a chance at least once and I don’t think you’d be disappointed.

Seriously addictive movie – The most balanced movie ever made?
The first time I saw this movie I had difficulty in understanding a lot of the dialogue not just because of the weird accent, but because the actors spoke so damn fast. But despite this I became literally addicted to it. To begin with my wife got pretty annoyed because any other movie we rented would be ejected after about 20 minutes of viewing and in would go LS&2SB. Now she is hooked as well.

I have lost count of the number of times I have seen LS&2SB and still cannot put my finger on why I find this movie so good to watch. I suppose the most obvious feature of this movie is that it is beautifully balanced between being serious and humorous at the same time. The characters are two-dimensional. The villains are menacing, and yet they are made to look like idiots, and the good guys think they are so smart yet keep getting the rug pulled from under them. They are all projected as ‘cool’ yet the situation is always out of their control. Maybe it could be called a satire on true life.

The style of this movie is unique, full stop. I cannot think of any movie that can be compared to LS&2SB. Quite a few people say that the style is a mix of ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘Goodfellas’, ‘Trainspotting’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’, but I think that you would make that kind of description only if you are really desperate to match LS&2SB to something.

The best description I can think of is ‘MTV does a crime comedy’, and I honestly don’t think there is anything wrong with that. Like music videos, it is all non-stop movement and sound. Something is always happening but unlike music videos, not without reason.

The humor is incredibly sharp yet ‘as a matter of fact’. 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. I think that it is for this reason that a few people are really disappointed with LS&2SB. If you are expecting a ‘belly laugh Leslie Nielson, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, typecasted’ type all out comedy, or a serious ‘Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, DeNiro typecasted crime thriller, you will find this movie a big let down.

My favorite characters are Rory Breaker (Vas Blackwood) and Big Chris (Vinnie Jones) mainly because their two dimensional over-the-top characters are the most obvious. Big Chris takes his son with him debt collecting, and while he beats up someone who owes chastises him for swearing in front of his son and Rory Breaker is the most idiotic drug-lord you could come up with.

I haven’t even mentioned the excellent and unique camerawork, speaker blowing soundtrack, beautifully threaded plot, perfect ending and the grittiest visuals I’ve seen. You wont see any reflective glass laden sky scrapers here, or ‘over head city shots’, or incredible special effects. This movie has actors I have never heard of, dialogues that you have to rewind and replay to understand, buildings that look as though they have been condemned for demolition, cars that wouldn’t even be seen in our scrap yards, has probably been made with a budget that most movies in Hollywood use for make-up alone, has no love scenes, or romance or complex relationships, no Oscar-worthy performances, and yet is perfect entertainment.

Where our movies normally rely on budgets, this movie works on human talent alone.

If any movie deserves a 10 out of 10, then this is it.

‘And there’s one more thing……………it’s been emotional’

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min), 2 hr (120 min) (director’s cut)
Budget 1350000
Revenue 28356188
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime
Director Guy Ritchie
Writer Guy Ritchie
Actors Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran
Country United Kingdom
Awards Won 1 BAFTA Award13 wins & 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Photosonics Camera
Laboratory Soho Images, London, UK
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Super 16
Printed Film Format 35 mm (blow-up)