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.
Guy Ritchie's debut landed as a breath of chaotic fresh air in late-90s British cinema — a kinetic, interlocking crime caper that audiences loved considerably more than critics did. The middling critical response centered on whether its Tarantino-esque flashiness added up to anything beyond style, while its audience following has only grown in the years since.
“the best British crime film since The Long Good Friday”
John Ferguson·Radio Times
“Lock, Stock is fun, in a slapdash way; it has an exuberance, and in a time when movies follow formulas like zombies, it's alive”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Comedy, Crime
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.
Guy Ritchie's debut landed as a breath of chaotic fresh air in late-90s British cinema — a kinetic, interlocking crime caper that audiences loved considerably more than critics did. The middling critical response centered on whether its Tarantino-esque flashiness added up to anything beyond style, while its audience following has only grown in the years since.
“the best British crime film since The Long Good Friday”
John Ferguson·Radio Times
“Lock, Stock is fun, in a slapdash way; it has an exuberance, and in a time when movies follow formulas like zombies, it's alive”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Comedy, Crime