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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

It’s some experience, and not just as a kaleidoscope, a who’s who of ‘lads’ from yesteryear. Worth a viewing aside from Vinnie Jones in his worst performance. One loses track of the sighing at his antics.

To steer clear of the alleged football player, the movie is a gem in places. Not much of a script, premise a bit desperate, but if you mute the pratfall happy-to-be-here frolics of half the ‘actors’ in half the scenes, the rest of the sequences are an inspiration, a compendium of short movies shot like a bloke who studied Scorsese and saw how to use a song for a character intro.

It’s entertaining as hell if you skip 50% of it all. And Vinnie Jones.

Razors from The Long Good Friday (1980) wielding a rubber willy is also amusing.

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