Hollywood goodfella: 100 Greatest Gangster Films: Snatch, #53

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Snatch, #53 Oct 25th 2012, 14:51 Jason Statham, Brad Pitt and Alan Ford in Snatch (2000-R) by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow This is the second of Guy Ritchie's madcap mob capers. And Brad Pitt's performance as Mickey O'Neil, the Irish gypsy, is the biggest reason for watching it. Pitt is a damn good actor, especially when he is portraying a slightly off-center character. He demonstrated this with his performance as a stoner in True Romance and his turn as a whacked-out, paranoid apostle of doom in Twelve Monkeys. We also liked him in The Mexican, but that's another story. One of the pretty-boy actors who came on the scene in the 1990s along with Christian Slater and Johnny Depp, Pitt has succeeded in spite of his looks, not because of them. Pitt brings a cockeyed, can-you-freakin'-believe-it attitude to the screen. And he delivers it here with the often-incomprehensible accent of an Irish pikey, a vagabond traveler who lives life on his own terms. But that's part of the joke in Snatch, a comic book-like story of a jewel heist, an illegal boxing match, a gangster who feeds body parts to pigs, violent mobsters, bumbling bookies and a dog. Read the Rest Here California Literary Review   Media files: af11 snatch

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