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The theft of a diamond stirs London’s lowlife community into action, with typically unpredictable but mostly violent results. Benicio Del Toro, Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Alan Ford and Jason Flemyng are among the assorted gangsters and dodgy geezers in the affray, but it’s Brad Pitt’s incomprehensible Irish bare-knuckle brawler who packs the film’s biggest punch. The television drama has seen two seasons since and follows a group of young scammers who find themselves with a truck loaded with stolen gold bullion and are soon involved in the world of organised crime.

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Brick Top sends his men to the Travellers’ camp, prepared to kill them all if Mickey fails. Making it to the fourth round per Brick Top’s plan, Mickey is knocked down, but recovers at the last moment and once again knocks out his opponent with one punch. Before they can kill Tommy, Turkish, and Mickey, Brick Top and his men are ambushed and massacred by the Travellers.

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Snatch is a 2000 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast and set in the London criminal underworld. The film contains two intertwined plots, one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter who finds himself under the thumb of a ruthless gangster who is ready and willing to have his subordinates carry out severe and sadistic acts of violence. Entrepreneurial and unscrupulous boxing promoter Turkish convinces gangster Brick Top to place bets on bare-knuckle boxer Mickey in a rigged match. Throw in Russian gangsters, amateur robbers, and a priceless stolen 82-carat diamond, and you’ve got this fast-paced, testosterone-filled film set in London’s criminal underworld.

• The film shares themes, ideas, and motifs with Ritchie’s first film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
• Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
• The television drama has seen two seasons since and follows a group of young scammers who find themselves with a truck loaded with stolen gold bullion and are soon involved in the world of organised crime.
• As Ritchie’s second feature film, Snatch is well done and shows inklings of the master craftsman he will eventually become.
• Snatch boasts an impressive cast including Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, Skins star Luke Pasqualino, Lucien Laviscount and Dougray Scott.
• Unlicensed boxing promoter and slot machine shop owner Turkish is forced to enter his boxer Gorgeous George in a match against one of crime boss Brick Top’s boxers.

About the Film

While Ritchie himself wasn’t directly involved in this spin-off/sequel show, it did have some serious talent behind it, including a cast made up of Rupert Grint, Luke Pasqualino, Lucien Laviscount, Phoebe Dynevor, Dougray Scott and more. An entertaining romp of a crime caper flick that wants to be funny more than it wants to be dangerous or mysterious. A gang of robbers disguised as Orthodox Jews steal an 86-carat (17.2 g) diamond during a heist in Antwerp. Franky Four-Fingers, the gang’s leader, goes to London to see diamond dealer Doug the Head on behalf of Jewish-American organized crime figure Cousin Avi to fence the stolen diamonds. Franky is told to visit arms dealer and ex-KGB agent Boris the Blade in London by one of the robbers, who tells Boris, his brother, to steal the diamond from Franky. Based on Snatch a comic book series with the same name by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, Resident Alien has three seasons so far, with a fourth currently in the works.

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• Hassan has had roles in films including The Football Factory, Layer Cake, Batman Begins, Kick-Ass and Clash of the Titans, as well as series such as Casualty, EastEnders, Hotel Babylon, NCIS and Game of Thrones.
• Benicio Del Toro, Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Alan Ford and Jason Flemyng are among the assorted gangsters and dodgy geezers in the affray, but it’s Brad Pitt’s incomprehensible Irish bare-knuckle brawler who packs the film’s biggest punch.
• Brick Top also successfully tracks down Tyrone, Vinny, and Sol, who bargain for their lives by offering to retrieve the diamond for him.
• When Avi arrives in London looking for his diamond, all hell breaks loose as various parties pursue personal agendas — all of them illegal, some of them farcical, and most of them destined to end in pain and retribution.
• Meanwhile, two shady boxing promoters discover Irish gypsy fighter Mickey O’Neil (Brad Pitt), whom they hope to ride to riches if he will only “take a fall” as instructed.
• Beloved crime film director Guy Ritchie has moved into the world of TV in the past couple of years, with The Gentlemen proving to be a hit on Netflix and a new series, MobLand, on the way to Paramount Plus.

Warren has had major roles in series including Band of Brothers, Doctor Who, Hustle, The Good Wife, Mad Dogs, The Musketeers, Safe, The Red King, Van der Valk, Missing You and Big Boys, as well as appearing in films such as Green Street, Wanted and Wild Bill. At the match, Mickey again knocks his opponent out with a single punch, prompting Brick Top to seize Turkish’s savings and demand that Mickey lose another fight. When Turkish is unable to convince Mickey to fight again, Brick Top responds by having his men trash Turkish’s arcade and burn down Mickey’s mother’s caravan, killing her. Brick Top also successfully tracks down Tyrone, Vinny, and Sol, who bargain for their lives by offering to retrieve the diamond for him. Avi and Doug hire bounty hunter Bullet-Tooth Tony to find Franky and they capture Boris and the diamond, pursued by Sol, Vinny, and Tyrone, with Turkish and Tommy driving on the same road. Tommy inadvertently causes Tony to crash, killing Rosebud, and Boris escapes only to be hit by Tyrone’s car.

The original film starred the likes of Jason Statham, Stephen Graham, and Brad Pitt, as it followed a ruthless gangster in a criminal underworld. Grint is, of course, best known for playing Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series. However, he has also had notable roles in series including Sick Note, The ABC Murders, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Servant, as well as the film Knock at the Cabin. However, The Gentlemen isn’t the first time one of Ritchie’s films was adapted for the small screen – in fact, a series based on his classic 2000 film Snatch was first released back in 2017 on streaming service Crackle. Set in London’s criminal underworld, Snatch weaves together multiple storylines involving gangsters, gamblers and one massive diamond.

When a street fight promoter gets tangled in a high-stakes heist, chaos erupts – with double-crosses, dodgy deals and bullets flying in every direction. It’s a twisting, witty, and wise crime-boxing story about the hunt for a huge diamond and a prizefighter who can’t take a fall. Though perhaps a case of style over substance, Guy Ritchie’s second crime caper is full of snappy dialogue, dark comedy, and interesting characters.