Meh

Kermode was right, this feels like some Tarantino fans went to the pub, got pissed, and had a go at a screenplay.

It’s got some colourful characters, a good cast and some amusing bits, but the cockney gangsta dialogue felt forced as hell and there wasn’t enough substance underneath. Stylistic flourishes and plot twists only work when you care about the characters, otherwise it’s just noise.

Here’s a cool geezah, here’s another cool geezah, here’s a hard bastard, this guy don’t look like much but you wouldn’t fuck with him etc etc. None of the characters were relatable, real or much more than a caricature (conjured by a 1995 chav)

Guy Ritchie can make good films, I loved his Sherlock Holmes efforts and wish he’d do a third. This felt like he wanted to go back to his roots after some major Hollywood flops but settled for a wafer thin script.

It was pleasantly un-PC, but even in that department felt tame compared to Tarantino.