Snatch, written and directed by Guy Ritchie

Snatch, written and directed by Guy Ritchie

                A first look at Snatch provides almost ecstatic entertainment.

However, seeing this comedy for the second time will reveal most of its flaws and the sense déjà vu can be tedious.

In addition, it is not just the fact that the viewer has watched Snatch once, but he or she realizes that there are many clichés within.

When the undersigned saw Snatch first, maybe fifteen years ago, it was exhilarating and triumphant.

The performances were stupendous.

The dialogue effervescent and glimmering.

The plot and the exchanges are exaggerated, but the participants do not take it too seriously.

It is a comedy after all

Moreover, very few of us would know what the gangsters look like, how they talk to each other…except from other movies.

Turkish and Tommy organize illegal boxing matches, only the athletes they manage keep falling to the ground, commit suicide, become crazy or get into fights with a tremendous “pikey”.

The latter is a triumphant fighter, Mickey O’Neil, a clever, frightening gipsy portrayed by Brad Pitt.

Turkish sends Tommy to get a caravan from the Irish Gipsies, but the vehicle they get loses two wheels just off the camp.

In the resulting kerfuffle, Gorgeous George, a boxer about twice the size of Mickey gets flattened out and incapacitated.

Without a boxer to enter the game they organize with Brick Top, a sadistic, ferocious, heinous mobster, that feeds his dead enemies to the pigs, tommy proposes that mickey enters the game.

He will, but he wants a…caravan for his mom.

He is ready to bet on it and if he loses, he would fight for no money, but if he wins, he gets caravan, shoes and more.

In addition, of course, Mickey wins.

At the fight, the mobster Brick Top wants to rig the game and have Mickey fall in the fourth round.

Only the rebellious, brave character does not.

There is a terrible wrath…The Wrath of Khan.

The savage mob leader orders his hench men to set the caravan of the disobedient “pikey” on fire and kill his mother.

Under the threat that the others will be murdered too, Mickey has to enter another game and actually fall in the fourth this time.

Well, I will let you ponder and divine what happens.

This complicated boxing gig is only part of the story, which involves numerous colorful personages like

Franky Four Fingers- an over the top performance from Benicio Del Toro-Cousin Avi, Boris the Blade, Bullet- Tooth Tony- played an excellent, creative ex-footballer, Vinnie Jones, Doug the Head and others

A huge diamond is stolen from Belgium, brought to London by Four Fingers, who has a problem with gambling and disappears, case with precious stone and all, on the initiative of Boris the Blade.

People get killed, hacked, cut into pieces and the diamond changes hands, until it finally reaches a derisive location.

I will not divulge the secret.

Snatch is phenomenal in its inventiveness and creativity, the hilarity of many, if not most of its lines is appreciable.