Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Movie Synopsis & Plot
Best mates Eddie (Nick Moran), Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher) are cocks-of-the-walk in and around the East End. And why not? They're virile, handsome lads who can hold their own. With this lot, it's all for one and more for all. So, everyone stakes Eddie, a sharp cardshark, for the biggest card game in town. Eddie can't lose ... until he does: the game is a setup. Fleeced, Eddie finds himself and his mates in debt to the game's host, never-to-be-crossed underworld boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), for a whopping 500,000 Pounds sterling ($800,000). If the money isn't on Harry's desk in a week, then Eddie's fingers (to start with) will be, thanks to fearsome debt collector Big Chris (Vinnie Jones). Unless Eddie's father, JD (Sting), forfeits his popular bar to his old adversary, Harry. Not bloody likely!
So, Eddie and the boys put their heads together and brainstorm a caper that will enable them to pay off Harry and make out like ... bandits, as it were. The foursome keeps focused on the big grab, even as all hell breaks loose around them, when a rogues' gallery of miscreants gets in their way. The gang of four finds more big-time trouble, and craziness, than they ever imagined. To save their skins, they'll have to demonstrate that rare trait: honor among thieves. However, making good use of the two barrels of that pair of vintage shotgun couldn't hurt...
MOVIE REVIEW
I don't watch many foreign films, but the ones I do see usually turn out pretty good (they have to be, or they don't make it to the big theaters in the U.S.). Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is no different, except that it teeters on the edge of not being that great. Luckily, it falls to the right side.Read our Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels movie review »