Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Revealing mistake: The marijuana plants being grown in the film are obviously not real. The plants in the film have very plastic looking leaves with no serrated edges like real marijuana.

Revealing mistake: When Dog's gang begins getting in the van after the robbery, John is sitting in the back of the van with the barely conscious traffic warden. The actor sees the others start getting into the van, so he lifts the traffic warden's head up from the floor and just about starts his dialog. He then seems to realise that he's jumping the gun and quickly pushes the traffic wardens head back down. A few seconds later the whole gang is in the van, so the guy in the back picks the traffic warden's head back up and starts his dialog like he was supposed to.

RJR99SS

Revealing mistake: When Dog and his gang are locked in the cage, the guy holding the Bren gun opens fire. He does this without warning, but look at Dog's face. He flinches a split second before the gun is fired.

jshy7979

Other mistake: During the rigged card game, the angle at which the hidden camera is shown would not have supplied a picture with the view from behind Eddy's shoulder, as is shown on the screen.

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Soap: A minute ago this was the safest job in the world. Now it's turning into a bad day in Bosnia.

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Trivia: Producer Matthew Vaughn makes a cameo as the yuppie whose car is stolen by Dog.

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Question: For the card game at Hatchet Harry's: one of the rules is that an open man can't see a blind one. I'm only familiar with "blind" referring to forced bets at certain spots on the table (e.g. the opening antes for Texas Hold 'Em). For this it seems to be a designation of the bet, for example when Harry counters Eddie's 10K, open, with 20K, blind, which is then topped by 20K, open. Could someone explain to me what open/blind means?

Answer: First, keep in mind they're not playing poker. It's similar, but there isn't a check/bet/call. They put in money, and you have to match it, then it's back on the other guy to match or raise. If you "see" the last guys bet, you put in double, and the cards are shown. Yes, "blind" means you didn't look, "open" means you did.

Answer: When you play a poker hand blind (I think it's in 5 card draw poker) you bet without looking at your cards and so you don't get the chance to change any cards. The others that are betting against you (the opens) have seen their cards, exchanged as many of their 5 cards as they want but then have to double your bet amount.

Answer: They're playing "3-card Brag." In this game, to play blind, you're not looking at your cards when betting. There are certain advantages to this because you only have to put in half the bet while blind. When the round gets to 2 players remaining, if one person wants to "see" a player's hand, he doubles the previous bet and the hands are revealed with the best hand winning (in the event of a tie, the player "seeing" loses). If a player is "open", meaning he looked at his hand, he can not double the bet and "see" a blind hand, he can only bet or fold. The round continues until the blind hand sees or there is a fold. At any time a person playing blind can look at their hand and then continues playing as an open hand, without the blind advantages.

Bishop73

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