Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels - 7.5

This is a very stylish and clever crime thriller from Guy Ritchie. It is fast-paced and entertaining and all the storylines end up tying together relatively neatly. I do however have a few small complaints. For one, the humor was far less consistent in Lock, Stock than in Ritchie's subsequent film Snatch, with Lock, Stock noticeably lacking a consistently hilarious character like Brad Pitt's fast-talking gypsy boxer in Snatch. My other (pretty unreasonable) complaint (that also applies to Snatch) is that the accents are sometimes close to indecipherable for me. This is pretty annoying as it is, but even worse since the dialogue is really the heart of the entire film, so missing a line here or there is worse than it would be with say The Boxer, another movie that comes to mind when I think of difficult accents to understand. Even so, Lock, Stock is a highly enjoyable movie that I suspect will also score well on the rewatchability scale.