Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (MA 15+) PRESENTED IN 35MM FILM

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (MA 15+, 1998) Presented in 35mm Film by The Revival House Perth

Eddy (Nick Moran) loses £500,000 in a rigged high-stakes card game run by porn baron and crime boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), leaving him and his three friends—Tom (Jason Flemyng), Soap (Dexter Fletcher), and Bacon (Jason Statham)—with just one week to pay the debt or face brutal consequences. Desperate to raise the money, the group hatches a scheme to rob a gang of small-time drug dealers in the flat next door, unaware that this plan will collide catastrophically with the schemes of several other criminal factions, including a group of thugs, a pair of bumbling antique thieves, and a ruthless crime lord known as Big Chris (Vinnie Jones). As these disparate criminal plots tangle together in increasingly chaotic and violent fashion, Eddy and his friends must navigate a labyrinth of double-crosses, mistaken identities, and escalating consequences.

Director Guy Ritchie announces himself with a kinetic, densely plotted crime comedy that helped define British gangster cinema for a new generation. Ritchie's rapid-fire editing, non-linear structure, and sharp, quotable dialogue create a distinctive visual and verbal style that would influence countless imitators in the years following its release. The sprawling ensemble cast—including football hooligan-turned-actor Vinnie Jones and a then-unknown Jason Statham in his breakout role—brings authentic East London swagger to the film's colourful cast of criminals and hangers-on. Ritchie's confident interweaving of multiple criminal schemes into one increasingly absurd collision showcases genuine structural ambition beneath the film's stylish surface, establishing the template for the director's subsequent career while remaining one of the most influential British crime films of its era.

Original format and audio experience of this film faithfully reproduced by The Revival House. Presented in 35mm film unless noted otherwise.

When: Saturday, September 5th at 7:00PM
Where: The Revival House at the Como Theatre
Rating: MA 15+ (Medium level violence, Medium level coarse language)