Top 250 Challenge: 143

Snatch. (2000)
Number 210 on IMDb's Top 250

Nominated by Mick

Turkish and his rather strange accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets the crap kicked out of him by Mickey O'Neal (Brad Pitt), a 'pike' (pronounced /pie-key/) as they call him. They then try to convince Mickey not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including Cousin Avi, Boris The Blade, Franky Four Fingers and Bullet Tooth Tony. Things go from bad to worse as it becomes all about the money, the guns, and the damned dog! As hilarity ensues, the two situations blend into one with a chain reaction of events carrying on for each and every character.

Trivia: Brad Pitt, who was a big fan of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), approached director Guy Ritchie and asked for a role in Snatch. When Ritchie found Pitt couldn't master a London accent, he gave him the role of Mickey the Gypsy. Pitt's character and indecipherable speech was inspired by many critic's complaints about the accents of the characters in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Guy Ritchie decided to counter the criticisms by creating a character that not only couldn't be understood by the audience but the also couldn't be understood by characters in the movie.

This is a very frenetic movie and is fun to watch just trying to figure out what is happening, much less what Mickey is saying. When Mick told me about this movie, he mentioned that I might want to turn the subtitles on so I could figure out what Mickey was saying. I decided to try it without the subtitles, just to see. I only had to hear Mickey's first line and immediately stopped the movie to turn on the subtitles, then I found out there was a special setting so that you could turn on the subtitles for Mickey only, so that is the way I went. If you like Guy Richtie's other movie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, this is a must watch, if you haven't, you might want to watch it just to hear what Brad Pitt has to say. Thanks Mick.