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This movie has been voted only by Lithuanians. Why did you do that? The movie is quite bad. The script is very simple. I did not enjoy it. A lot of clichés. Not even remotely funny. Very few surprises. Everything is very simple. Maybe that it contains a lot of inside jokes. Maybe you have to be from eastern Europe to like it. Thanks for wasting my time. This is the first and last Lithuanian movie.

Very weak attempt to imitate aforementioned director's style with lame results. Some gags make you crack a little smile a few times, but that's all. Vinnie is OK as the tough guy but he can't save this as the plot is the thickness of a rolling paper and probably could fit on one sheet of it. It's just another robbers robbing each other story with characters who should be dead by the first 10 minutes but somehow survive in the most ludicrous manner everything that is thrown at them, including hails of bullets etc. No effort whatsoever at creating some plausible shenanigans. Save 2 hours of your life and don't watch this poorly written rubbish.

It's not terrible, but that's also not saying much. The score also isn't very indicative of this film's quality, but on such a prominent site as IMDb - it is no surprise. 5 stars for the effort of trying to be something it clearly isn't - a Guy Ritchie style gangster flick. Is it funny ? Yeah, at times - it is, but most of the laughs are accompanied by a cringe. Is it original ? Hardly. You always get a feeling you have seen all this before - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but in this case it feels like Re-Directed is awkwardly trying to mimic its bigger brothers from UK. The dramatic arguments in some of the scenes feel incredibly forced - clear over-acting steals the emphasis from what should be really important in the scene. That said, the pacing is okay, there's enough action for this kind of movie and it doesn't stall too much. Also, I found some scenes genuinely comical, but some were a bit too cliché-ridden. What deserves some applause though, is that the director didn't attempt to paint a realistic picture of Lithuania, but took the satirical, "Looney Tunes" approach instead. It's one of the things I actually liked about this film - it's very light-hearted and doesn't take itself seriously, which scores it some very much needed points. This is something you watch once, then remember how many times you had watched Snatch/Lock Stock, and then watch them again - because they are worth it.

i don't know what's wrong with the British movies, every time when i tried to watch a highly praised British movie, especially in the category or genre of thriller or action movie, i just couldn't finish it. there seems a format that making the British action movies so inferior to Hollywood stuff. in the British movies, the dialog got to be screamed and yelled, like all the participants were either too excited or too scared. the words and sentences were just language abuse to the extreme. the "bloody or fxxking" words were so overly used, it seems that everyone wanted to look tough and vicious, but at the same time, all of them were just scared shxtless. the other thing that turned me down every time when watching a British movie is everything in it was overly exaggerated to match those ugly words. everybody was yelling and screaming. the British humor also so disconnected with me, i've never laughed or even smiled to their 'bloody' jokes, never. i often ended up returned the rentals right away, no exception. British movie industries only better than light comedy or romance, or adaptations from the classic literature, when people wearing old costumes, riding on horses or sitting in a wagon. those popular so-called mystery, those laughable murder cases, those with the 'chief inspector', old or female chiefs whatever, were most written by house wives. their logic or reasoning are so poor and laughable. British action films are just like Bollywood action films, no matter how serious situation is, no matter how dangerous the main character is facing, suddenly, it turns into singing and dancing. so like Bollywood movies, if they cannot get rid of the singing and dancing, Hindi movies would never be taken seriously. by the same token, if the British movies cannot change the yelling and screaming dialog, if they could not change the way of communication into more normal condition, it'd always turn out to be a big unbearable and noisy mess. This one is the good example of yelling and screaming British style.

First of all, the movie got me a lot of good laughs, especially in the beginning, where Brits get into all kinds of awkward situations and troubles in an Eastern-Europe country. I absolutely love the stereotypical depiction of locals, however they are too inhospitable and swear way too much -- people in Poland and Baltics usually are a lot more friendlier than the movie wants us to believe. There are lots of really good jokes about the stereotypical eastern-European "love" of foreigners (means: you will most probably end up robbed, naked and find yourself in the middle of nowhere if you walk too far from city centre and trust locals too much), lots of funny moments flavoured with a good load of nonsense and stupidity. I say, you should watch it. Well done, Lithuania.

This movie had quite a promising start, but unfortunately the writers ran out of ideas after less than an hour. The story is nothing original - bad guys had something taken from them, bad guys try to get it back, how original is that, it's been done a hundred times before (and a lot better) The story centres around 4 idiots who rob some guys with the plan to fly off to Malaysia, unfortunately because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, their plane is diverted to Lithuania, and here's my first issue, The plane was diverted, yet it wasn't headed towards the volcano, which is north, Lithuania is east, as is Malaysia. Neither of those countries are anywhere near Iceland, so why couldn't it continue to Malaysia? And why Lithuania? The story kicks off at a pace with the feel of a Guy Ritchie movie, but slows quite quickly. The lads end up in Lithuania trying to get back to Blighty, being chased by all types of gangsters. The acting is very poor and unnatural, and instead of sounding like tough London gangsters they sound like posh boys trying to play the hard man, and it just didn't work for me. Vinny Jones was, well, Vinny Jones, and gave the sort of performance you come to expect from him, not exceptional, not bad, just...Vinny. The story runs out of steam, and the majority of the film has the lads running from place to place being chased, and that's pretty much the rest of the movie. For me it was a kind of nothing movie, easily forgettable. It tried very hard to be a Lock Stock kind of movie and failed. Don't be fooled by the 10 star ratings given by people from Lithuania, they are totally false and rated highly just because it was filmed in their country. Give this a miss, unless you have 90 minutes or so to kill.

Well...having read the last reviews about this film I am considering if my sense of humour has some sort of problem...but not. I just did not like it, I just could not laugh. The actors are incredible. The location is very interesting. The plot....is a mixture of styles I have already seen in films of Kusturica, Ritchie, etc....but when someone else just tries to "make a film like it was from another famous person"....it just doesn't work. the story is full of any kind of bizarre situations. And that's all you will get from this film. Very good music, I have to admit. but...¿rough gangsters walking in low motion? ¿again? ¿priest having sex? ¿funny? sorry don't invite me, I am not interested.

Although it is written the way it is, I found this film to be incredibly annoying. The situations are farcical and far fetched....but not in a good way. Never before have I watched a film that gets me screaming at the screen " Just shoot them !! " so often and with such passion. 9's out of 10 for THIS film ? Perleaaase ! Get real.....a FOUR at the very most !! I had NO sympathy with the 3 robbers and the guy who is unwittingly coerced into being part of their activities. They ALL needed shooting and I came away from this feeling sorry for Vinnie Jones that he had to put himself through this pile of do-do. If you intend watching this, be fully prepared to shout at the screen like I did. Enjoy, if you like to be wound up !

Finally, a Lithuanian directed movie I am proud to present to the international community. Not another down-tempo super metaphoric berlin-festival-wannabe 'theather play' but a true global-standard entertainment. Nothing much original: several B grade stars, lots of Guy Ritchie style swear-run-shoot scenes and Kusturica style humor. However, finally, two hours well spent with no sense of obligation to "support local produce". The movie begins in London but moves out to Lithuania shortly after. To a disgrace (and even shock) to some Lithuanians, Vilnius is portrayed as a dirty and corrupted city with criminal elements roaming the streets day and night. Well, its wasn't that bad even in the 90s but, well, Balcan'ish chaos is much more entertaining to watch as compared to Scandinavian'ish modern and calm reality. Countryside is also shown at its ('somewhere in Siberia') extreme and reminded me the Russian movies, such as Osobennosti natsionalnoy rybalki (1998). Don't trust the IMDb rating unless its has >20k votes, as the first 10k will be voted by patriot Lithuanians. In any way, to sum up, its a good film to eat some popcorn and to laugh with (or at) the eastern europeans.