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I saw this awhile back, but thought I'd recommend it to those
looking for a specific video. A black crime comedy that is full
of visual gambits (many hit, many miss), this is a heist film
billed as Great Britain's "Pulp Fiction." It has many
similarities - the screwing around with sequence, the blase
attitude to brutality, the quirky characters - but visually, it
shares more in common with the Cohen Brothers first film, "Blood
Simple," though post-MTV in attitude. The director shows you
every knife in his drawer, from stop action to slow motion 360 (an
entertaining card game gone bad), to interspered music video. The
result is a mash of a film, but it is populated by engaging
players (a quartet of inept thieves, a trio of crass, drugged out
marijuana brokers, a Mr. Big, an enforcer with father lay family
values, an Abbott and Costello) and it moves quickly (though the
Cockney is a bitch).
Does it have soul? Not one millimeter. All flash and teeth.
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