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This is a movie buff's movie. It's so damned full of life, so flamboyant, so fast paced, so wild, so full of rich characters -- I know I'll watch this at least two more times, and I NEVER do that.

On the down side, it's one of those movies that has *alot* of characters, and a real multi-tentacled plot, and it does involve a stolen diamond (but there's no people in black suits on wires avoiding laser beams I assure you). There's an evil guy in here about 65 called Brick Top who looks like your grandfather but he's got this eye that just roves around. Damn this is a good movie. Brad Pitt is even more amusing here than he was in Fight Club, and he's just a secondary character. And the plot coalesces like a complex puzzle.

Sometimes you see so many bad movies in a row you lose faith in humanity. This will cure what ails you. Snatch is truly it's own movie -- there's nothing like it. It's too good to analyse further. The Brits always have had it over Americans in the character department, and this is a prime example.

The short version is that this is just a tedious pile of boring horror movie cliches with alot of fear for fears sake, gore for gore's sake, alot of noisy shooting, yelling, kicking in doors, alot of tedious special effects, alot of ripoffs from movies from Alien to Friday the 13th. I mean, the phone rings and theres this evil voice from hell on it. Give me a break. And spare me the dripping goo, and spare me the plot filler explanations. You mean if we shoot (whatever) with this special (whatever) it will kill the (whatever)? God, if I hear that drivel once more tentacles may shoot out of *my* eyeballs.

I say this as a Dean Koontz fan, and I know he did the script. I believe I've read just about all his books, and his books are not like this. His books are good. He gets a real creepy thing going in some of them. So .. don't see this because you like him. This is alot like of Stephen King's drivel where evil forces do things to scare crap out of people for no reason (other than making money). These people should be required by law to have a logical explanation for everything that results in things that look like people but really aren't, or heads exploding and all the blasted brains pulsating around.

You've sold your soul, Koontz, now you're one of those mind-controlled zombie you always write about.

Ripped off almost verbatim from Jaws. Small beach community worried about giant shark during tourist season becomes small town worried about giant snake during beer festival. Sheriff becomes woman sheriff. Shark catcher becomes snake catcher (Pat Morita). Pat, you are no Robert Shaw. Not only is this a stinker it's criminally plagaristic. If this movie was any good they'd get sued.