Snatch

Title: Snatch.
Year: 2000
Director: Guy Ritchie
Writer: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Alan Ford, Robbie Gee, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, Rade Serbedzija, Jason Statham
Music: John Murphy
Distinctions: currently #155 on IMDb's Top 250
Synopsis: various unsavory types are all after a large stolen diamond
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), two days ago
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good)
Objective Rating: 9/10 (1 point off for cinematography) c. 3.5/4 (Very good)

This basically has the same plot as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (which I didn't like), but this time around it's much better. Tighter writing, more entertaining characters, a better cast...  It's kind of like Ritchie made Lock, and thought, "wait, I can do that better," and did.