Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

★ 8.1 1h 45m 7,133 votes IMDb

Comedy Crime

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

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Vinnie Jones as Big Chris Age 61 · Hertfordshire, England, UK Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is a British actor, presenter, and former professional footballer. Jones played professionally as a defensive midfielder from 1984 to 1999, notably for Wimbl...

Jason Flemyng as Tom Age 59 · Putney, London, England, UK Jason Iain Flemyng (born September 25, 1966) is an English actor. He is known for his film work, which has included roles in British films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch...

Dexter Fletcher as Soap Age 60 · North London, England, UK Dexter Fletcher (born 31 January 1966) is an English actor and director. He has appeared in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the crime comedy Smoking Guns, as well as in televisio...

Nick Moran as Eddy Age 56 · East End, London, England, UK Nicholas James "Nick" Moran is an English actor, writer, producer and director, best known for his role as Eddy the card shark in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. He also appeared as Scabior in H...

Jason Statham as Bacon Age 58 · Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, UK Jason Statham (/ˈsteɪθəm/ STAY-thəm; born 26 July 1967) is an English actor and producer. He is known for portraying tough, gritty, or violent characters in various action thriller films and has been...

Director Guy Ritchie

Cast Vinnie Jones, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Nicholas Rowe, Nick Marcq, Charles Forbes, Lenny McLean

BradFlix Dec 01, 2013

I just plain love this movie!

Andres Gomez 3/10 Apr 24, 2014

Far from being a good movie, with tons of flaws but already pointing to the pattern of the whole Ritchie's filmography.

David Perkins 9/10 Jan 09, 2017

Genuinely one of my favorite movies of all time. Watched again recently and realised how well written, brilliantly shot, beautifully cast and cleverly produced this movie actually is!

r96sk 8/10 Mar 16, 2022

The very entertaining ending makes this film.

I wasn't sure about <em>'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'</em> up until that point. Like, don't get me wrong, it is a good film from the get-go but I wasn't personally convinced by it to be more than that until the credits rolled - at which point, I found myself to have been thoroughly entertained.

With Guy Ritchie in his directing debut and a whole host of familiar British faces, it isn't a difficult film to get into. I did feel at some points that there were too many characters and that they weren't distinctive enough; there were momentary bits where I had to think a tad harder at which characters were linked with each other. However, that actually turns into the film's best thing at the end as it does come together brilliantly.

All in all, this 1998 gangster flick is something I'd consider as very good and worthy of watching.