10 Best Characters In Guy Ritchie Movies

Alongside Nick (Eddie Moran), Soap (Dexter Fletcher) and the aforementioned Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon is one of the main protagonists who suddenly finds himself in £500,000 debt to a local gangster. Despite this, Bacon often seems the least panicked and afraid by this, and is one of the first to try and come up with solutions as to how to solve this problem.

At the start of the film, Bacon is shown to be a street vendor of stolen goods, but seeing as this is unlikely to raise £500,000 in a week, he decides to join his friends in the robbery that will hopefully solve this issue. Even though Bacon is the most calm and rational of the group, he still finds it hard to deal with the consequences of the group's actions throughout the film.

Jason Statham shines in his first ever appearance in front of the camera, and right from the offset, he has the humour and the attitude that has now been seen in dozens of the other movies he starred in after Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Before this film, Statham actually worked as a street vendor, just as his character does at the beginning of the film, and for someone with no prior acting experience, he does a marvellous job playing one of the film's major protagonists.

It was actually Ritchie himself that discovered and cast Statham for the first time, and since then, Statham has gone on to appear in three other Guy Ritchie films so far, Snatch (2000), Revolver (2005) and the upcoming Wrath of Man (2021). Statham to Ritchie is what Jimmy Stewart was to Alfred Hitchcock, and any collaborations between the two are sure to be enjoyable.