1998 - British Flow

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1998 - British Flow

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Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels - Action, sarcasm and violent all in 1



Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash

Long-time friends Bacon, Soap, Tom and Eddie decided to put together £100,000 to play three card brag against "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale, a porn king of notorious disposition, in a high-stakes card game in the hopes of winning easy money. Aided by Barry "the Baptist", Harry's personal bodyguard and trusted counsel, fixed the game so that Eddie, the card sharp representing the group, loses to Harry and is forced to pay him £500,000 in one week. When they fail they will first loose their fingers, following the bar of Eddie's father. To Eddie's fortune, and the dismay of his friends, all four of the group are tasked with honouring this debt, as they were all responsible for fronting the stake money. Harry’s loyal and violent debt collector, Big Chris, who often brings his son and apprentice, Little Chris, to his work, is assigned to collect the payment on the due date.

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After several days and no ideas to come up with the money, Eddie returns home and overhears his neighbours, a gang of thieves known for robbing drug dealers, planning a heist on some marijuana growers supposedly loaded with cash and drugs. Eddie relays this information to the group, intending for all of them to rob the neighbours as they come back from their heist, therefore solving the debt.
Tom uses his connection with an underground dealer, known as Nick "the Greek", to provide them with guns for the job, and to find someone to help them move the drugs. After they raided their neighbours, they plan to move the stolen weed and money to Eddie's flat because it's the only safe place. They fail.
Rory Breaker, a gangster and sociopath, and his gang assault the flat and enter a shootout with the neighbours, resulting in the deaths of all but Dog and the lone chemist to survive the slaughter, with the latter taking off with the marijuana. Dog is mugged by Big Chris of the shotguns and money during his escape, Gary and Dean hastily follow Big Chris, and the four friends finally return to the flat, shocked by the carnage and the missing loot. Big Chris then gives the guns and cash to Harry, and as he returns to his car he encounters Dog threatening his son, who wants him to get the loot back from Harry.
Desperate to get the guns, Gary and Dean attack Harry and Barry at their office, realizing who they were at the last minute before killing each other in another violent shootout. The four friends soon arrive to find another scene of carnage, and take the opportunity to re-steal the debt money, mystified by their strange fortune. Big Chris then crashes into their car to disable Dog. Big Chris flies into a rage at Dog for threatening his son, and brutally bludgeons him to death with his car door. He takes the debt money back from the unconscious friends, only to find his employer dead, and Tom just about to make off with the antique shotguns, which he'd briefly stayed behind to examine.

As they didn't know that they redeemed their debt they go to Harry and try to explain that they haven't got the money yet. When Harry told them that the money already has arrived they are relieved.
The four reunite at Eddie’s father’s bar, and decide to have Tom get rid of the the shotguns. After Tom leaves, Big Chris arrives to bid them farewell, and gives them a catalogue on antique guns. Big Chris then leaves, having kept the debt money for himself and his son. A quick perusal of the book reveals that the shotguns the four had bought for the job were each worth a fortune, more than the debt money kept by Big Chris, and so they desperately try to call Tom who is on the way to throw the shotguns in the River Thames.

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The excellent and unique camerawork, speaker blowing soundtrack, beautifully threaded plot, perfect ending and the grittiest visuals are just awsome. Not any reflective glass laden sky scrapers here, or 'over head city shots', or incredible special effects. This movie has actors you have never heard of, dialogues that you have to rewind and replay to understand, buildings that look as though they have been condemned for demolition, cars that wouldn't even be seen in our scrap yards. Violent connected with a little bit of comedy. It has probably been made with a budget that most movies in Hollywood use for make-up alone but though it is a fantastic entertainment.
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