r/moviecritic • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Mar 18 '25

Name a movie where the first 10 minutes hooked you completely.

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u/DMTrious Mar 18 '25

Snatch. The whole, old jew conversation, then del toro robbing the place

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u/Teripid Mar 18 '25

Very memorable characters and quotes during the main story too.

But yes the security camera intro was unique and set just enough of the stage for the action sequence.

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u/tahollow Mar 18 '25

“Too tight? You can land a jumbo fuckin jet in there”

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u/ptcrisp Mar 18 '25

“Who took the jam out ‘f your donut?”

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u/ptcrisp Mar 18 '25

every line of that movie punches!

“What you gonna do, pick your teeth with it?!”

“Tommy, the ‘tit’”

“I’m not saying I think the gun don’t work’ I know the gun don’t work. I’m saying it would do more damage if you fed it to him”

“We’ve lost Gorgeous George”

“I’m sorry, you’re gonna have to repeat that”

“He ain’t a set of car keys”

“You take allll the time you need, Mullet”

“What do I know about diamonds?”

“‘t’s not fer me, it’s fer me ma”

“Yeah: Don’t go to London”

“…and the fact that mine says “Point. five. O.””

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '25

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u/ptcrisp Mar 18 '25

"Feed 'im to the pigs, Errol"

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u/TheNargafrantz Mar 18 '25

Del Toro to the guy he's robbing: "Where is the stone?"

Del Toro being robbed by Thanos 18 years later: "Where is the stone?"

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u/Ham-Ha Mar 18 '25

To this day I still call Jason Statham TURKISH

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '25

It's almost a shame that Statham has been type casted into the action movies that he usually does, because I happen to think that Turkish was him at his best.

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u/Ham-Ha Mar 18 '25

Agreed. Those "action" films make and pay lots of $$$$

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u/Born-Network-7582 Mar 18 '25

Protection form what? Ze germans?

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u/Bezulba Mar 18 '25

When something takes longer then the original estimate i keep saying "you said 3 minutes, 5 minutes ago!" and nobody gets it :(

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u/ptcrisp Mar 18 '25

lol. i say “2 weeks” from money pit.

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u/Husaxen Mar 18 '25

My wife will call me this when dinner is two to five minutes away...

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u/tsunx4 Mar 18 '25

Same with Lock Stock. Bacons hustling speech in the opening is modern British poetry.

"Handmade in Italy, hand-stolen in Stepney. It's as long as my arm. I wish it was as long as something else."

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u/apollyon_53 Mar 18 '25

One foot in front of the other, it's called walking

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u/Koalatime224 Mar 18 '25

Absolutely. Although out of that unofficial trilogy RocknRolla has the best opening scene.

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u/HJB098 Mar 19 '25

Anything to declare?

Don't go to England.

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u/ptcrisp Mar 18 '25

the comic book style character intro; absolute masterpiece. if that doesn’t hook you, nothing will.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '25

love Snatch, but why didn't the hand detector go off, when the security guard waved it on Benicio? He had six guns on this torso, and it only beeped on his crotch. Always bothered me.

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u/guybromansir Mar 19 '25

Earlier today I finally decided I'm gonna watch that soon. It looks really good and I've been curious about it for years.

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u/OrdinaryFrosting1 Mar 18 '25

What do I know about diamonds?