Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Nobody has ever named every character in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels after one watch, and if you claim you did, you’re running a bigger con than Hatchet Harry’s card game. Guy Ritchie tosses gangsters, robbers, debt collectors, two clueless thieves and a pair of antique shotguns into one London blender, then hits puree. The first half hour is a lot: accents so thick you’ll want subtitles, freeze frames, a narrator and a card game that goes south fast. Then the storylines start crashing into each other and the whole thing clicks like dominoes. Vinnie Jones as Big Chris is the most polite scary man ever filmed, and a young Jason Statham is already doing the Statham glare. The women barely get a line, which is a real miss. Made for a reported $1.4M, and audiences put it ahead of 98% of movies on the site. An 8.0 because the chaos is tight. $348 says you turn on subtitles in the first ten minutes and never turn them off again.

What works: The way every storyline crashes into the others, plus Vinnie Jones and a cast that talks like it grew up in a pub.

What doesn’t: The first half hour is a pileup of names and accents, and the women in the cast barely get a line between them.

Who it’s for: People who like crime movies where the plan falls apart and the falling apart is the fun part.