Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

(1996), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), and Go (1999). Film buffs also indulged in imaginative speculation about certain elements in the film, such as what appear to be plot threads connecting its characters with those in Reservoir Dogs and theories about the contents of…

…the con man Bacon in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. The crime comedy, which was director Guy Ritchie’s first feature film, earned widespread praise. It also marked the start of a productive—and lucrative—director-actor friendship. Statham was later cast in Ritchie’s second film, Snatch (2000), which also featured Brad Pitt.…