“I don’t get it either, but I don’t want to admit it.”

Come on man, it’s a 100 minute movie, not the secret to Scientology. If you really think you have something, then tell us. Otherwise, stop hiding behind rhetoric and move on.

It’s incredible.

The con is so incredibly simple and almost no one seems to have figured it out. Once you realise what the ‘key’ or ‘formula’ to the story is, every scene, every character, every situation makes perfect sense.

You then stand back and watch the movie, and you realise that Ritchie really has outdone himself. The thing is just masterfully constructed. Precisely like a game of chess. Or a game of tennis. Or any game, for that matter.

Am I going to tell you what this ‘key’ is? Well, no. Of course not.

Because, once I tell you the formula, the secret of life itself will be revealed. And no one wants anyone else to have that. It’s an unbelieveably potent weapon. I know, because I’ve used it. And I know how powerful it is.

That’s why it’s a “secret”.

– Manfred Powell

Let me explain myself… In itself, the movie isn’t that bad, it is really bad considered to the 2 marvels Ritchie served us before. The new style doesn’t feel fresh (as Tarantino used the anime style in Kill Bill) and it lacks what Ritchie did best, comedy.

Snatch and LSTSB, had comedy, irony, a lot of beautiful dialogues that were the very basis of what I love about Ritchie.

Alas, the movie loses itself in a myriad of complex inner battles, that in the end, makes you more wonder about if you weren’t just clever enough to figure it out, or if there is something to figure at all.

That aside, the music is once again beautiful and I feel it adds a lot to the themes of the movie.

Let’s hop Ritchie goes back to comedy soon enough…