Ritchie may be skilled at generating controlled chaos, but his surprise-a-minute strategy ultimately holds no surprises.

April 15, 2008 read full article

This may be one of the hazardous offshoots of the music-video-trained generation of moviemakers; they confuse a diet of eye candy with a full meal.

September 26, 2002 read full article

Bouncing around in a world of bare-knuckle boxing, gypsy swindlers, pretend Jewish diamond merchants, indestructible Russian assassins and a thug who disposes of bodies by feeding them to hungry pigs, Snatch has enough plots for a fair-sized cemetery.

March 22, 2002 read full article

He's not breaking new ground with Snatch, merely fine-tuning the knack for disreputable kicks he showed in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

June 04, 2001 read full article

The cinematic dazzle, the high pitch to which he leads his actors, the relish of sheer velocity are reward enough.

March 08, 2001 read full article

Ritche has nothing but fun with this movie and we get the feeling that the actors do the same.

February 09, 2001 read full article

The story motors like a car driven by a chatty maniac who somehow stays on the road.

February 07, 2001 read full article

February 07, 2001 read full article

It takes a very clever schoolboy to make a movie as elaborately empty as Guy Ritchie's Snatch.

February 07, 2001 read full article

Manages the trick of keeping the viewer entertained -- and aware of exactly who is where -- even when the movie is going in three directions at the same time.

February 07, 2001 read full article

Snatch is hard to figure out, but even harder not to laugh at.

January 19, 2001 read full article

A pointless exercise in cool by a film maker who needs to grow up. As in: Oh, grow up.

January 19, 2001 read full article

The ride is occasionally fun because of the utter heartlessness of it all.

January 19, 2001 read full article

A fairly cool movie and also a fairly good one.

January 19, 2001 read full article

Fun moments are ultimately slight compensation for Snatch's overall staleness.

January 19, 2001 read full article

You'll laugh and have a good old rowdy time watching Snatch. But as soon as you walk out of the theater, you'll ask yourself what it was you were laughing at.

January 19, 2001 read full article

Hip and stylish. It's also empty, but that's probably part of the style, which draws inspiration from Quentin Tarantino movies and vintage British gangster films as well as music videos.

January 19, 2001 read full article

Snatch just seems aggressively smug, like a doorman at a club that too desperately wants to be coolly exclusive.

January 19, 2001 read full article

Ritchie doesn't have a whole lot to say about matters of fate, morality and manhood.

January 19, 2001 read full article

Loaded down with too many characters and locations.

January 19, 2001 read full article