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I found Snatch to be a very entertaining movie.
I get quite bored and disenchanted with so many films that are released, I've seen so much, and read so much, that nothing seems new anymore. Everything seems recycled, or reworked, and sometimes just a flat out 'rinse & reuse' deal.
Then I see this film.

Its certainly not a 'mainstream' movie, so for that it already gets a few bonus points in my book. You do have to pay attention to what is being said, so it is not pure 'brain candy' - more bonus points.
There was just something about it that I liked. So, nyeah.

Now, I screened this last week, but held off on posting anything about it…
Because something else I've noticed is that whenever I post a positive review here, I get quite a handful of negative replies.

…Is it just me, or what???

~GLB

SPOILERS HERE.

I was very disappointed in this film overall. The first half was just irritating as the director's sense of style was over the top. The quick rotating camera cuts, the alternating zoom ins and outs from speaker to speaker on those intercut phone conversations, and such just annoyed me to no end.

I think I started to get into it, as did the rest of the audience I noticed, right about the time Franky Four Fingers gets trapped in the van by the three black thugs and the dog swallows the squeaky toy. Things started to pick up a bit then. But when the bookie counter girl activates the security system and the two robbers are fighting to get the door open, it was pretty evident that all they had to do was pull on the door. I remember seeing a real life instance on America's Stupidest Criminals where the same thing happened to a would be bank robber.

But I will have to agree with your friend James that Brad Pitt's character was one of the better parts of the movie. I found his unintelligible dialogue to be quite entertaining as opposed to most of the understandable yet bad dialogue that plagued the rest of the movie. I just wish Mickey's retribution at the end had been a bit more savage as I really wanted to see Brick Top suffer. There were other positive moments in the film such as Vinnie Jones pointing out the fact Replica is blatantly stenciled on the side of the gun's barrel, and Dennis Farina's presence in London in general. But my overall reaction to the movie is nowhere near the acclaim and hype this film was thus far received. What I don't get is why people think movies like this have a cool and stylish look while a movie like Detroit Rock City, that had critics and viewers alike bashing it to no end, had IMHO a much more stylish look and a faster more enjoyable pace.

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The man with the magic hands.