Told rapid-fire (Ritchie is clearly aiming for the MTV generation) with time overlaps and occasional flashbacks, Snatch works because it doesn’t try to be more than it is. ![]() And he delivers it here with the often-incomprehensible accent of an Irish pikey, a vagabond traveler who lives life on his own terms.īut that’s part of the joke in Snatch, a comic book-like story of a jewel heist, an illegal boxing match, a gangster who feeds body parts to pigs, violent mobsters, bumbling bookies and a dog. Pitt brings a cockeyed, can-you-freakin’-believe-it attitude to the screen. One of the pretty-boy actors who came on the scene in the 1990s along with Christian Slater and Johnny Depp, Pitt has succeeded in spite of his looks, not because of them. ![]() ![]() We also liked him in The Mexican, but that’s another story. He demonstrated this with his performance as a stoner in True Romance and his turn as a whacked-out, paranoid apostle of doom in Twelve Monkeys. ![]() Pitt is a damn good actor, especially when he is portraying a slightly off-center character. This is the second of Guy Ritchie’s madcap mob capers.Īnd Brad Pitt’s performance as Mickey O’Neil, the Irish gypsy, is the biggest reason for watching it. Jason Statham, Brad Pitt and Alan Ford in Snatch (2000-R)
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