1. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels featured a humdinger of an ending which decided to eschew the whole everything-wrapped-up-in-a-neat-little-bow approach for something altogether more befitting to that film universe. To remind you, it went a little something like this (deep breath) the noble foursome of Bacon, Soap, Ed and Tom go back to their flat to find the crew they stole some already stolen money and weed off have been shot dead by the first lot of guys who had the money and weed stolen from them. However, the cash has been picked up by Vinnie Jones in his breakout and best role (although that's not saying much) who's working as a debt collector to the folks to original foursome owe. Yet when our heroes attempt to explain what's happened to their money, they find their loan sharks have been killed too, by two guys looking for a pair of antique rifles on behalf of the very people they shot. Somehow Vinnie gets the money back again, but Tom manages to walk off with the antique rifles, which he's purchased earlier as part of the operation to turn over the neighbouring crew. He's then told to dump the rifles the only thing linking them to the massacre at their home but Vinnie comes back in, saying he's taken the cash but the rifles are worth a pretty penny. Cue frantic phone-scrabbling for Tom, whose phone goes off when he's dangling over the side of a bridge holding the guns in one hand. It's a cool ending to an utterly labyrinthine plot, dumping simplicity in favour of the character anarchy which punctuated Guy Ritchie's opening films. To me, that's a wise move frankly, with this many people, methods and motivations knocking about, it's only natural that something would go unresolved, and here we have it does Tom answer the phone, or does he drop the guns? To this question, I ask this why can't he do both? As has already been established in the scene, Tom's first attempt to get rid of the guns failed because there's a platform behind the railings on which they got stuck. So really, why can't he put the guns back on the platform, take the call and then armed with this new knowledge, re-save the guns? After all, he's got himself a way to drag his body back over the railings and out of his precarious position. Sure, it would take some thought to right himself properly, but I truly think Tom could get back to stability on either side of that railing (that platform looks pretty large), and answer that £500,000 phone call. Then he can go back to JD's for another pint, which he can now totally afford. Agree or disagree? Know of any more? Fancy yelling at me? Feel free to comment!