Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Categories: Entertainment | Movies | 1990s Films
    • Writer and director: Guy Ritchie
    • Producer: Matthew Vaughn
    • Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran and Jason Statham
    • Released: August 28, 1998 (UK), March 5, 1999 (NY), January 22, 1999 (LA)
    • Running time: 105 minutes
    • Budget: GBP 960,000
    • U.S. box office: $3,714,067
    • Won the 1998 British Independent Film Award
    • There are 17 murders in the film
    • Total Film Magazine ranked the film #38 on its list of the greatest British films
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was Guy Ritchie's first feature-length film. It follows a gambler and his friends, who decide to rob a gang of drug dealers in order to pay back a crimelord that they owe from a high-stakes card game.
  • Popularity and Reviews

    Lock, Stock... performed well in the United Kingdom and the United States and established Ritchie as a presence on the indie film scene. The film is ranked as #197 on the IMDb Top 250 and has a 71% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

    Peter Travers praised the film for keeping the humor and pace consistent, despite the confusing plot. Many writers criticized Ritchie's follow-up film, Snatch, for being too similar to Lock, Stock...

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