Review: Snatch. (2001)

Title: Snatch.
Year: 2001
Starring: Jason Statham, Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt
Genres: Comedy, Action, Crime
MPAA: R for strong violence, language, and some nudity
Kids-In-Mind.com: 6.10.10
My Rating: 7.5
IMDb Rating: 8.2 (Top 250: #155)

Synopsis: Some amateur robbers fight with Jewish diamond dealer cousins (Mike Reid and Farina) over a large diamond acquired in a heist. In the mean time, two boxing promoters, Turkish (Statham) and Tommy, have had their prize fighter knocked out while trying to purchase a caravan from gypsies. They take the gypsy who'd knocked him out, Mickey (Pitt), as their new fighter. Events progress and the two stories intermingle in the end when a stray dog from the gypsy camp eats the diamond and chaos ensues.

My Take: Maybe I'll like this more if I see it again, but this was just a complicated mess. It was pretty funny at times, and Pitt in his minor role stole the show, but the story was quite hard to follow. I'm relatively accustomed to understanding various accents; I listen to the BBC daily; but the British English in the film was difficult to understand and made the film itself a bit more complicated. Again, I can see myself upping this rating to as high as a 8.5 or so if I see it again, and I will if given the opportunity, but I won't go out of my way to re-watch this film.

Concerning the rating: This film falls into 73rd place out of 120 movies rated.

In queue: Capote (2005), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Wrestler (2008)

This film was suggested by Alison.

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