Overview
In a chaotic world of crime and comedy, mismatched characters collide over a stolen diamond and a boxing match gone wrong.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- witty
- irreverent
- frantic
- cult movie night
- late night viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the snappy dialogue, dark comedy, and memorable characters while finding the film stylistically excessive and too similar to Guy Ritchie's earlier work.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The diamond heist and Turkish's match-fixing operation converge through a large, shifting ensemble.
The film repeatedly places darkly funny dialogue and absurd situations beside beatings, guns, and intimidation.
Guy Ritchie uses brisk pacing, stylized transitions, and compressed action to propel the overlapping capers.
Brick Top, Bullet Tooth Tony, Boris the Blade, and Mickey O'Neil embody the film's exaggerated English criminal milieu.
Films like Snatch, and why
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
shared British gangster comedy, interlocking criminal plots, rapid dialogue, and stylized violence
The Gentlemen
shared ensemble crime caper structure, dark humor, eccentric criminals, and escalating chaos
RocknRolla
shared diamond-heist premise, comic criminal underworld, and charismatic ensemble of schemers
Layer Cake
shared boxing-centered criminal milieu, hard-edged humor, and kinetic British crime storytelling
Movie Details
- Director
- Guy Ritchie
- Release Date
- 2000-09-01
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 (10316)
Cast
- Jason Statham
- Alan Ford
- Stephen Graham
- Brad Pitt
- Dennis Farina
- Robbie Gee
- Lennie James
- Benicio del Toro
- Rade Šerbedžija
- Vinnie Jones
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Sundance Now
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Plex
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Snatch about?
- A kinetic British crime comedy where a diamond heist and a rigged bare-knuckle fight collide in a delirious underworld of gangsters, gamblers, and Travellers.
- What is Snatch like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Snatch as breakneck, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Snatch violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Snatch as moderate.
- What did critics think of Snatch?
- Critics broadly praised the snappy dialogue, dark comedy, and memorable characters while finding the film stylistically excessive and too similar to Guy Ritchie's earlier work.
- Which films are like Snatch?
- Films with a similar feel include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Gentlemen, RocknRolla, and Layer Cake.
- How long is Snatch?
- Snatch runs 103 minutes.
- Where can I watch Snatch?
- In United States, Snatch streams on Sundance Now.
