Review of film(s) : Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (CERT 18)

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Review of film(s) : Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (CERT 18)

Marching forward with a shotgun over each confident shoulder, Vinnie Jones striding fearlessly towards the camera is an image which, like many phrases from this much-hyped event movie, will be remembered for sheer action packed, gangster genius. This isn't your average British movie.

Fans of previous gangster works of art such as Goodfellas (1990) or the older style of Scarface (1930) (referred to at one point in Lock, Stock...), won't be used to the newly approached and freshly created appeal brought to the genre by the man who managed to tame Madonna, Guy Ritchie. Ritchie is tackling his first event movie and is bringing in many new unknown actors onto the scene; actors that he is set to promote to household names.

Of course one name that is familiar to many a household and has been for years for reasons completely foreign to film, is Vinnie Jones. The Welsh former hard-man of the football world was seen by Ritchie as the ideal man for the key role in 'Lock, Stock...' of 'Big Chris'. The role is his first in the movie industry, yet