Guy Ritchie's style reinvigorated the gangster genre and produced two very clever and watchable movies (Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). Both were sharp and funny while also being foul and violent. Despite the low characters and amoral worldview of the films they were both well done and fun to view. Ritchie then got hooked up with Madonna and then in Lennon/Yoko Ono fashion, he veered off the course that made him notable and he released junk films that no one wanted to see. This film returns him to where he is strongest, making amoral English gangster flicks with plenty of editing tricks and cool music.

Obviously, this will be a violent and morally retarded affair. Ritchie's talents are plain to see but he chooses to spend them on promoting criminal behavior. In this sense he's like Tarantino but with better taste.