About
Guy Ritchie’s follow-up to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Two parallel stories: a fixed boxing match, and a stolen diamond, set in London’s criminal underworld.
Cast
- Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Farina, Vinnie Jones
Cast crossovers with ROTF
- Andy Beckwith plays Errol. Beckwith goes on to play Cokey across multiple Rise of the Footsoldier films.
- Bronson Webb appears. Webb plays Kevin Whitaker in Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins.
- Vinnie Jones plays Bullet Tooth Tony. Jones plays Bernard O’Mahoney in Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins.
How it relates
Further stocking of the casting pool that the ROTF franchise later draws from. The British gangster ensemble film template, on a Hollywood budget.