About
Guy Ritchie’s 1998 debut feature that defined a new wave of British gangster cinema. A four-strand caper involving a fixed card game, a stolen weed crop, two shotguns and the East End firms swirling around them.
Cast crossovers with ROTF
- P.H. Moriarty plays Hatchet Harry. Plays Ian Jarvis in Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins (2021).
- Stephen Marcus plays Nick the Greek. Plays Jack Whomes in Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story (2017).
- Dexter Fletcher, Vinnie Jones, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham.
How it relates
Different tonal register from ROTF (Ritchie’s is comedic, ROTF’s is brutal) but the casting pool, the location aesthetic (East End meets Essex) and the energy all map across. Lock, Stock opened the door commercially that Rise of the Footsoldier later walked through.