Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.1/10· 650K votes

Rotten Tomatoes75%

Metacritic67%

TMDb8.095/10· 7K votes

With 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.1/10 on IMDb and 67/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

Cast of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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  Vinnie Jones

  as Big Chris

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  Jason Flemyng

  as Tom

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  Dexter Fletcher

  as Soap

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  Nick Moran

  as Eddy

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  Jason Statham

  as Bacon

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  Steven Mackintosh

  as Winston

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  Nicholas Rowe

  as J

• 

  Nick Marcq

  as Charles

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  Charles Forbes

  as Willie

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  Lenny McLean

  as Barry the Baptist

• P

  Peter McNicholl

  as Little Chris

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  P.H. Moriarty

  as 'Hatchet' Harry Lonsdale

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels facts

Budget

$1.4M

Box office

$28.4M

Our take on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Guy Ritchie's 1998 debut is a fast, interlocking crime comedy in which a card shark and his reluctantly recruited friends need serious cash quickly after a rigged poker match leaves them deep in debt. Their scheme, robbing a small-time gang operating out of the neighbouring flat, sets off a chain of collisions among London lowlifes. The pleasure is structural: overlapping schemes, sharp cockney patter and coincidences snapping shut like traps, all delivered with cocky energy and dark humour. It rewards viewers who enjoy plot mechanics and ensemble chaos over emotional depth, and it remains a lively, quotable entry point into Ritchie's underworld style.