Snatch

I was quite excited to hear there was a tv series of Snatch as I loved the films. It starts off quite good with the story of the gold. As the story goes and more characters are introduced it becomes quite painful. The cockney language is used correctly but seems so forced. The characters don't fit and it's very cringy, the story also gets from stupid to stupid. Most of the characters are not very likeable and you can't relate with them which means you just don't get in to it. All the police business is silly as well,

Over all a few funny moments but over all a poor man's adaption of the film.

A very lightweight attempt at a TV series very lightly based on the excellent movie. The characters are fluffy pretty definitely not- criminal looking actors and the dialogue is completely uninteresting, unlike in the movie. The raw humor and sense of menace is missing. A real bastardization of the film, and a case study in why a director matters, a script matters, and realism matters. The epitome of why TV usually stinks.

If you loved the movie Snatch then you will love this series...Rupert Grint is especially good in it lol...Great cast all around. Guy Ritchie will be proud I'd imagine...Wish he had a part in doing this series, then it'd be a solid 10 I'm sure - but definitely a 9 if you loved the series, so all in all, I loved this series and hope for a season 2.

This is a well- crafted series that takes the DNA of Guy Ritchies' films and spins it out as a series. Snatch is exactly what fans of Mockney comedy-crime-drama want in their viewing - lags in dire straights, smart birds, who'd knock your top off if you called them that, all with sharp suits and sharper dialogues.

The settings and acting are all good - the acting is mockney on steroids, but is reined in just enough that it occasionally mocks but never sends up the genre - more of a nod and wink if you know what I mean than two smoking barrels all the time. The acting works - both the male and female leads exude confidence, and the plot of missing gold bullion and a load of messy situations make for very easy viewing.

This is one of the better new series out there - it refuses to take itself too seriously, but neither is it just buffoons and lampoons. It's very well made with tight editing and good camera work, and everyone obviously knows they're working with a good script and a winning formula.

Fun.

Much like a bland meal, this series was digestible, however lacked the depth and intensity of flavour characterised by so many great series. This was like a dry jacobs cream cracker. I mean I'm a man that can take a certain amount of satisfaction in eating a certain amount of dry jacobs cream crackers but after a while it does get somewhat tiresome. I think the actors are not to be blamed. They have done the best job with what they've got here, but the writers/producers/directors whilst not entirely doing a bad job, should be shot. Sit the writers down and make them watch all seasons of The Sopranos or any other great series let them learn some lessons, cah fa real, they've let every one down with this and that's not to say it's crap cos it's not but come on mate, the last episode especially, they run out of the warehouse with that money and straight out to about 10 cop cars and then proceed to put the money in the van without so much as one copper outside, the whole thing gets quite unbelievable in places. Also Rupter Grint is annoying, don't know why, he's just got one of those faces.