the story of the british movie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British black comedy crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, produced by Matthew Vaughn and starring an ensemble cast including Jason Fleming, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Stephen Mackintosh and Sting, with Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham in the lead role.

 His first feature film.

The story describes a heist involving a confident young card who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime boss in a rigged game of Three Card Show. 

To pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a small gang operating out of the apartment next door.

The film brought Ritchie international fame and introduced former Welsh international footballer Jones and former diver Statham to audiences around the world. 

It was also a commercial success, grossing over $28 million at the box office against a budget of $1.35 million.

A British television series, Lock, Stock..., followed in 2000, running for seven episodes including the pilot.

Old friends and small-time London criminals Eddie, Tom, Soup and Bacon have raised £100,000 so that Eddie, a card sharp,

 can take part in one of Harry Lonsdale's high-stakes three-card "Hatchett" games. However, 

the game is rigged and they end up owing Harry £500,000, to be paid within a week. Harry sends his debt collector Big Chris to Eddie's father J.D., 

since Harry's true intention is to obtain J.D.'s tape to pay off the debt.

Also interested in two antique Holland & Holland rifles up for auction

, Harry enlists his enforcer Barry "The Baptist" to hire two thieves, Gary and Dean, to steal them from a bankrupt master.

 After the incompetent thieves inadvertently sell it to local fence boy Nick "The Greek", Barry threatens them to get the weapons back.

 Meanwhile, Eddie returns home and overhears his neighbors, a gang of thieves led by a brutal man named "The Dog", planning to rob some cannabis growers loaded with cash and drugs. He told the other three and they decided to rob the neighbors after they returned from their robber

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Tom buys the guns from Nick (both unaware of their true value), to use in the plan.

The Dog Gang carries out their heist, and despite one gang member dying with his own Bren gun and facing an indictment with a traffic warden, they succeed, returning with a duffel bag full of money and a truckload of bags of cannabis.

 Eddie and his friends ambush them and escape in the truck containing the hashish and the jailer. 

They transfer the loot to their own van and head home, knocking out the warden and throwing him on the road before arranging for Nick to fence the drugs for violent gangster Rory Breaker. 

Rory agrees to buy the hashish at half price but two of his men visit the farmers' house, 

discovering that they have been robbed and the hashish he just bought has been stolen from his farmers.

 Rory threatens Nick into giving him Eddie's address and assigns one of the farmers, Winston, to identify the thieves.

While the friends celebrate at JD's bar, the Dog crew accidentally discovers that they have been robbed by their neighbors,

 and stage an ambush at Eddie's apartment. Rory and his gang arrive at the apartment instead, 

and in the ensuing shootout, everyone except Doug and Winston are killed. 

Winston leaves with the drugs.

 The Dog tries to escape with the guns and money, but Big Chris arrives, incapacitates him

, and takes both. In an attempt to recover the weapons, Gary and Dean follow Chris, 

oblivious to the fact that Chris brought them to Harry.

After handing over the money and weapons to Harry, Chris returns to his car to find Doug holding his son,

 Little Chris, at knifepoint, demanding that the money be returned to him.

 Chris complies and starts the car. Meanwhile, Gary and Dean break into Harry's office.

 The ensuing confrontation results in the deaths of Gary, Dean, Barry and Harry.

 After discovering the massacre in their apartment and the loss of the stolen items, 

the four friends head to Harry's office, find a second set of bodies, and decide to take the money for themselves

. Chris intentionally crashes their car to disable the dog and then hits it with his car door, killing it

. He then retrieves the money from the unconscious 

Eddie but allows Tom to leave with the guns after a brief confrontation.

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The friends are arrested but quickly exonerated after the warden identifies Doug and his crew as the culprits

. Back at the bar, Eddie, Bacon, and Soap send Tom to dispose of the weapons, as they are the only remaining evidence linking them to the case.

 Chris then arrives to return the bag from which he took all the money for himself and his son and which now contains a catalog of antique weapons. 

Browsing through the catalogue, the three friends learn that the weapons are actually much more valuable than they thought,

 and frantically call Tom to dissuade him from getting rid of them. The film ends with Tom leaning over Southwark Bridge, holding his ringing mobile phone in his mouth

, as he prepares to drop the weapons into the Thames.

Although it was Ritchie's first feature film, his previous short The Hard Case was impressive enough to attract interest not only from financial backers but also convinced Sting to take on the role of J.D.

 "I watched Guy's short film and was excited by the pace and energy of it. I liked the way he dealt with violence and action.

I don't like gratuitous violence. I think it's more chilling when it's suggested instead of graphic." For Ritchie, getting the exact right actor for each role was essential. “Casting took a long time and we auditioned hundreds of people, but I was determined to hold out until we got the real McCoy.” This led to the hiring of several real ex-cons, who certainly invested the film with its menacing overtones. Ritchie also looked to the celebrity scene to secure suitable actors such as Vinnie Jones. 

“I had no hesitation in casting Vinny because I have great respect for his acting abilities.”

A one-hour documentary on the film's production was released featuring much of the cast alongside Ritchie.

Locations include Shoreditch for the gang's hideout and Clerkenwell for the JD bar.

The film was released on August 28, 1998 in the United Kingdom and was the second highest-grossing domestic production of the year after Sliding Doors,

 with a gross of $18.9 million. It was released on March 5, 1999 in the United States, where it grossed $3,753,929 ($6,594,497 in 2022).

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 75% based on 67 reviews, with an average rating of 6.70/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is a dark, twisty,

 and funny twist on Tarantino's hipster formula." On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 66 out of 100, based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

John Ferguson, writing for the Radio Times, described the film as "the best British crime film since The Long Good Friday". 

Roger Ebert, in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote: "Lock, Stock, etc. seems more an exercise in style than anything else. 

And so it is. We don't care much about the characters (I felt actual affection for the phlegmatic guard, Barry the Baptist , more than any of the heroes.) We realize that the film's style stands outside the material and is lathered on top (there are freeze frames, funny subtitles, speed-ups and slow-motion, and that the characters are controlled by the demands of the hourly plot. But "Shut, stock" "It's fun, in a reckless way; it's lively, and at a time when movies follow formulas like zombies, it's alive."

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The film was nominated for a 1998 British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year. In 2000, Ritchie won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

 In 2004, Total Film magazine ranked it as the 38th greatest British film of all time.

 In 2016, Empire magazine ranked Lock, Stock 75th on its list of the 100 best British films, stating in its entry that "to describe the plot as 'complicated' is to do a disservice – it's all brilliantly done, and delivered with such grace." -Confident and written with such a startling turn of phrase that it somehow runs like clockwork.

 “Well, actually, more than 18 years later, it remains Ritchie's best film, a remarkable achievement from a first-time director who took a meticulous but relatively unknown group of actors and turned them into solid gold
Focus Features released the Locked n' Loaded director's cut in 2006. This version of the film contains more backstories for each character, and runs in a total running time of 120 minutes.

the television
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A spin-off television series, co-written by Ritchie, has been developed for Channel 4.

 The show featured a new cast of characters: Moon, Jimmy, Bacon, and Lee (portrayed by Daniel Caltagirone, Scott Maslen, Sean Parks, and Dale Sinnott). , respectively); who comedically fail in various criminal business ventures, similar to the cast of a feature film. 

Lock, Stock... aired from May 29 to July 11, 2000