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Review

This film rules! It's the best film I've seen all year. No actually it's better than anything I saw last year as well. In fact it's the best film since Trainspotting! It's almost as good as Trainspotting - and it's more enjoyable than The Rock! The direction is superb (Especially as the director was a tea-boy four years ago) - the way it slows down all the time is amazing and every shot is superb. This film cost well under a million pounds to make, yet the acting is excellent, the sets are perfect and the plot couldn't be better. The best thing about this gangster film is the humour - it is so serious, yet so funny - especially when the Cockney (London) English is converted into English-English in the subtitles. Vinnie Jones' 'aggressive' style of football adds a very nasty edge to his gangster character - surprisingly he is a very good actor - I'm sure that if you're not British, and didn't know Vinnie's past, you wouldn't realise that he's a professional Football player and not a professional actor. All the other actors are very good too - and there's even a few appearances by none other than Sting! There's inevitability lots of swearing and a bit of violence in this film, but if you can stand that, then go see it - you won't be disappointed, and there's a brilliant soundtrack too (Madonna loves the film so much that she was desperate to sign the soundtrack for her Maverick record label).

Mackie The Star

No Lock, Stock & Two Smokin' Barrels Mackie The Star graphic yet.

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