2000, 1 hr 45 min., Rated R for strong violence, language and some nudity.�Dir: Guy Ritchie. Cast: Jason Statham (Turkish), Stephen Graham (Tommy), Benicio Del Toro (Frankie Four Fingers), Dennis Farina (Cousin Avi), Vinnie Jones (Bullet Tooth Tony), Brad Pitt (One Punch' Mickey ONeil), Rade Serbedzija (Boris The Blade), Alan Ford (Brick Top), Mike Reid (Doug The Head), Robbie Gee (Vinny), Lennie James (Sol), Ewen Bremner (Mullet), Jason Flemyng (Darren), Ade (Tyrone).

I never saw Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, the critical fave from last year, so I won�t be offering any comparisons as some critics are wont to do. That film � as is Snatch - receives its fair share of comparisons to Quentin Tarantino-style, especially Pulp Fiction.

While director Guy Ritchie is quite the showman, with lots of pizzazz and hip tunes in accompaniment, camera tricks aplenty with a plethora of characters intertwining. . . wait, I was going to offer reasons that it wasn�t warranted to compare to Pulp Fiction. . . never mind. Okay, so there are similarities, but Snatch doesn�t make you want to take a shower afterwards from violence and language.

I had a good time watching the movie; the characters may be bad news, but they�re likable rogues, the kind that engage in spirited conversation of how to properly dispose of a dead body before offing your nemesis. Oh, and the proper way, according to Brick Top, is to cut up the body into six pieces and feed them to a group of 16 pigs, who will clean up the scraps in an hour. I wonder how long it will be until some sicko copies this and the media will gobble it up as another example of film corrupting our minds?

Back to the rogues: like I said they�re likable. It�s hard to dislike them, being how colorful they are, the snazzy language, the British accents which make anyone sound proper and fitting nicknames to boot (Bullet Tooth Tony, Boris the Blade, the aforementioned Brick Top, One Punch Mickey, Doug the Head, et al)

The biggest names on the marquee aren�t even the main characters. Benecio Del Toro is just know coming into his own as a star, so as Frankie Four Fingers he spends little time in front of us. Brad Pitt has a more sizable role as Mickey, a bareknuckle pikey (gypsy) boxer with an accent no one understands except for his fellow pikies. Some speculate that Ritchie put this in here on purpose, as a kid to those who chided Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for being chock full of inarticulate English tongues.

There�s plenty of humor and action, and Snatch is held together by one interesting scene after another. Just pay attention, since there are several plot points bouncing around, and Ritchie will pull a switcheroo on you at any moment.