shotgun is the game they are playing in lock stock and two smoking barrels.
shotgun is the game they are playing in lock stock and two smoking barrels.
what game are they playing in lock stock and two smoking barrels?
shotgun
a television series, "lock, stock...", followed in 2000, running for seven episodes including the pilot.









































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long-time friends and small-time criminals eddy, tom, soap, and bacon put together £100,000 so that eddy, a genius card shark, can buy into one of "hatchet" harry lonsdale's high-stakes three card brag games. the game is rigged, however, and the friends end up massively indebted to harry for £500,000. harry then sends his debt collector big chris, who is often accompanied by his beloved son, little chris, to ensure that the debt is honoured within a week.
lock, stock and two smoking barrels
"the daily telegraph" wrote that despite its billing as a comedy thriller, the film was "neither noticeably comic nor remotely thrilling." after its us premiere at the fort lauderdale international film festival, "variety" made note of the film seeming to "borrow heavily" from "lock, stock and two smoking barrels", and called it a "late, lame entry in the comic assassin genre". they offered that while the cast choices were fine, they were "generally wasted" and that the film, "lacking equally in humor and action, looks headed directly to home vid and cable." in agreement, film4 wrote that the cast choices were reasonable, but the film might have been better if in other directorial hands. they considered its soundtrack inappropriate and the director's use of slow motion or high-speed for certain scenes as an unsuccessful lending of style, making it look "ridiculous and cheap, like a poor man’s "lock, stock and two smoking barrels"." they wrote "a comedy-thriller short on laughs and thrills, triggermen is a rather misjudged film" that used a "ridiculous plot, second-rate acting and the stylisation of "the benny hill show"." the "tribune" made note that as the film's writer and director were both canadian, they did a "poor job persuading us that postlethwaite is a key player on the south side." "sunday mercury" also panned the film, calling it a "weak farce with an intrusive soundtrack", but unlike "variety" and "film 4", they offered that it was "beautifully framed and shot", while speaking well toward neil morrissey lead role, but they opined that he had "little hope of saving this unconvincing, dull, limp, flat, laughter-free comedy caper." entertainment.ie also noted weak comparisons of the film to "lock, stock and two smoking barrels" and "pulp fiction", and offered that such was "probably affording "triggermen" too much respect." they called the plot a "distressingly inane story" and one of those "hopeless juvenile, depressingly formulaic brit comedies which owes its very existence to guy ritchie." "raidió teilifís éireann" wrote of the film, "without a speck of originality, intelligence or humour, 'triggermen' is all a bit aimless."
triggermen