This movie is about confusion, mistakes, and misinterpretation that connects a
web of criminals and gangs to battle to the death. At the root, four friends blindly
catalyze this small war with good intentions, but bad judgement.
It’s very well paced. Not too fast, but never boring. Kept me on my toes the whole
time. Also, I found myself very emotionally connected with the characters, which made
the witty plot twists even more exciting. The movie seems very coherent in all it’s
elements. It seems as if the actors, writers, director, and editors all somehow managed
to mesh and collaborate to actually make a truly captivating film. The humor is fantastic
as well. I think the brits have a more sophisticated funny bone than us. That’s probably
just me though.
Cinematography was superb. It is near impossible to do anything in a movie
today that has not already been done. You can either do nothing - or do whatever you
can as long as it suits the mood and the flow of the movie, and Guy Ritchie just cannot
be faulted. He projects the seedy, miserable weathered London, yet with
such style that you want to see more. The camera work could not have been better. Just
see the projection of Eddy's unsteady, light-headed wooziness as he gets up from the
gambling table having lost everything and owing even more.
Brilliant.
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