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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998
**½
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Vinnie Jones, Nick Moran

Guy Ritchie's cult debut is a flashy but empty "guns and geezers movie" set in the London underworld. The Tarantino influences are blatantly obvious in his mix of humour, hip dialogue, visual tricks, plot twists and sudden bursts of violence. The follow-up Snatch is more or less the same film.