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Snatch isn’t the easiest of film storylines to describe, so please bare with me! In the heart of the London gangland, lies 2 novice unlicensed boxing promoters. On the one side, you have Turkish (Jason Statham), who despite being a bit of a ‘geezer’ plays things mostly by the rules. On the other side, you have Brick Top (Alan Ford) who doesn’t like playing things by the rules, infact, you could say that he tries his hardest to break them in as many ways as possible, providing its profitable. Despite Brick Tops reputation, Turkish and colleague Tommy (Stephen Graham) get roped into organising a bare-knuckle boxing match with one of Bricktops fighters. As you would expect, things don’t exactly go to plan, as Turkish’s fighter is badly hurt a few days before the fight by a a barely comprehensible gypsy played by Brad Pitt. To avoid getting into some deep trouble with Brick Top, as a last minute effort Turkish decides to use the gypsy for the fight, and from that moment on, the duo start finding themselves in increasing amounts of trouble.

Meanwhile, despite all the other events, a stolen 86 carat diamond has gone missing somewhere in London. Franky Four Fingers (played by Benicio Del Toro) was last seen with the diamond, however local legend Bullet Tooth Tony is hired to track down Franky, and its not long before the paths of the boxing promoters, and the diamond thiefs become dangerously close…

It has to be said, I was expecting quite a lot from this sequel. Unfortunately, I didn’t get around to seeing Snatch at the cinema, though because of the great reviews, and general hear say regarding this release I was definitely going to pick it up on DVD. Initial impressions were disappointing. Guy Richie has certainly thrown in all the elements that made ‘Lock Stock’ the success that it was, however ‘Snatch’ needed so much more. What makes things worse, is the over complicated storyline. You may have noticed that I had a few difficulties describing the storyline above, well that’s because I thought the general storyline was a complete shambles. I often found myself playing catch up, as my mind was still trying to work out the scene before and the connection with the current events. The pace of the film is so fast, that your often left with absolutely no clue as to what is meant to be going on. The ending is also far from clever, despite not following a large percentage of the film I expected the end to gel the entire piece together perfectly. I was mistaken. Originally Snatch was intended to be a darker gangster movie, however as filming progressed it became apparent to Richie that this was turning into another light hearted stab at the gangster world. This is not necessarily a bad thing, many of the jokes are generally funny and on a number of occasions I found myself laughing out loud.