Long-time friends and small-time criminals Eddy, Tom, Soap, and Bacon put together £100,000 so that Eddy, a genius card sharp, 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 honored within a week.
Harry is also interested in a pair of expensive antique shotguns that
are up for auction, and gets his enforcer Barry "the Baptist" to hire a
couple of thieves, Gary and Dean, to steal them from a bankrupt lord.
The two turn out to be highly incompetent and unwittingly sell the
shotguns to Nick "the Greek", a local fence.
After learning this, an enraged Barry threatens the two into getting
the guns back. Eddy returns home one day and overhears his neighbours - a
gang of robbers led by a brutal man called "Dog" - planning a heist on
some cannabis
growers loaded with cash and drugs. Eddy relays this information to the
group, intending for them to rob the neighbours as they come back from
their heist. In preparation for the robbery, Tom buys the antique
shotguns from Nick the Greek.
The neighbours' heist gets under way; despite a gang member being killed by his own Bren Gun,
and an incriminating encounter with a traffic warden, the job is a
success and they return home with a duffel bag filled with money and a
van loaded with bags of marijuana. Eddy and his friends ambush them as
planned, and later return to stash their loot next door. They then have
Nick fence the drugs to Rory Breaker, a gangster with a reputation for
violence. Rory agrees to the deal, but later learns that the drugs were
robbed from his own growers. Rory threatens Nick into giving him Eddy's
address, and brings along one of the growers - Winston - to identify the
robbers.
Eddy and his friends spend the night at Eddy's father's bar to
celebrate. Meanwhile, Dog's crew accidentally learns that their
neighbours are the ones that robbed them, and set up an ambush in Eddy's
flat. Rory and his gang arrive instead and a shootout ensues, resulting
in the deaths of all but Dog and Winston. Winston leaves with the
drugs; Dog leaves with the two shotguns and the money but is waylaid by
Big Chris, who knocks him out and takes everything. Gary and Dean,
having learned who bought the shotguns and not knowing that Chris works
for Harry, follows Chris to Harry's place. Chris delivers the money and
guns to Harry, but when he returns to his car he finds Dog holding
Little Chris at knife point, demanding the money be returned to him.
Chris complies and starts the car. Meanwhile, Gary and Dean burst into
Harry's office; starting a confrontation that ends up killing them both,
and Harry and Barry as well.
Returning to see the carnage at their flat and their loot missing,
Eddy and his friends head to Harry's, but when they discover Harry's
corpse they decide to take the money for themselves. Before they are
able to leave, Chris crashes into their car to disable Dog, and then
brutally bludgeons him to death with his car door. He then takes the
debt money back from the unconscious friends, but allows Tom to leave
with the antique shotguns after a brief standoff in Harry's office.
The friends are arrested, but declared innocent of recent events
after the traffic warden identifies Dog and his crew as the culprits.
Back at the bar, they send Tom out to dispose of the only evidence
connecting them to the case: the antique shotguns. Chris then arrives to
give back the duffel bag; he has taken all the money for himself and
his son, and the bag is empty except for a catalogue of antique weapons.
After leafing through the catalogue, the friends learn that the
shotguns are actually quite valuable, and quickly call Tom. The film
ends with Tom's mobile phone, stuffed in his mouth, ringing as he hangs
over the side of a bridge, preparing to drop the shotguns into the River Thames.


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