Decidedly Average OK, lets get something straight, I really like Lock Stock & Snatch.
This film however has none of charm of the previous Richie offerings.
In fact this film feels more like a made for TV mini-series rather than a fully fledged movie destined for the silver screen.
Individually there were some great performances notable was Tony Kebell (who was also superb in Dead Mans Shoes) as Johnny Quid.
There were some scenes that seemed to have been thrown in regardless of the damage they would do to character development why on earth would Thandie Newton (a switched on & a naughty accountant) invite the men she tipped off to rob her client (twice) to a party she was throwing there's loving danger and there's being stupid.
The whole film needed to be tightened up, it needed some pace injected and it needed some originality it doesn't need to be totally new, just new enough Guy!!!
Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate this film, far from it, I just didn't like it that much Guy needs to either up the ante or change the genre, simply churning out mediocre copies of his previous creations is just going to diminish the following he generated with Lock Stock & Snatch.
Maybe being married to that Harpy has sucked the creativity out of him, or maybe Guy only knows how to make one type of film????
If this film was on TV and nothing else was on I would watch it again but it will not be earning a place on my shelf.