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RocknRolla (2008)

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Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 58

Mixed reviews for Guy Ritchie's return to his London-based cockney wideboy gangster movie roots, but most agree, it's a step in the right direction following two major turkeys.

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 13

Mixed reviews for Guy Ritchie's return to his London-based cockney wideboy gangster movie roots, but most agree, it's a step in the right direction following two major turkeys.

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Average Rating: 3.6/5
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Movie Info

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie heads back to the London underworld for this hyperkinetic crime comedy concerning a shady land deal that leaves every schemer in the city determined to get rich or die trying. When a Russian mobster orchestrates a lucrative real estate scam, every criminal in London wants a piece of the action. Greed is the universal language, and everyone from unrelenting crime boss Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson) to street-smart criminal One Two (Gerard

R, 1 hr. 54 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure

Guy Ritchie

Jan 27, 2009

$5.7M

Warner Bros. Pictures/Dark Castle

All Critics (150) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (59) | DVD (12)

This is a wonderful movie.

November 10, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment (1)
At the Movies
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Guns, gangsters, and Richie's unique style and tone make his latest picture just plain fun.

November 10, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
At the Movies
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Ritchie, who shoots and cuts everything in RocknRolla like an ad for a particularly greasy brand of fragrance for men, delivers the beatings and killings in his trademark atmosphere of morally weightless flash.

October 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comments (2)
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Style is what RocknRolla is all about. And it has it in spades, from the cockney Pulp Fiction dialogue to the music-video editing of the rambling narrative.

October 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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As in other Ritchie films, RocknRolla attempts to depict a world of ever-expanding chaos. But the chaos is only in the way the story is told. The actual vision Ritchie offers is pedestrian and tame.

October 31, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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Flashy but assured, the film is a controlled exercise in style that toes the line but never feels over-the-top. In a word, RocknRolla rocks.

October 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
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It's all about the set-up and not the actual payoff.

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Views | Comment (1)

RocknRolla is a return to form, of sorts, for Mr. Ritchie. ... The British director has returned to familiar territory, that of the small-time hood.

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Times | Comment

An over-long mish-mash of scarcely linked sub-plots...

August 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Moviedex | Comment (1)
Moviedex

'RocknRolla' takes more left turns than imaginable. It might make sense in the mind of Guy Ritchie, but to the rest of the universe, I can not imagine the film will translate.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: BET.com | Comments (6)
BET.com

A self conscious re-working of Guy Ritchie's now familiar style and storyworld.

March 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Screenwize | Comment
Screenwize

It's long, confusing but is definitely saved with great performances and a tight episodic script...

February 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

Breaks no new ground for movies or for Ritchie, but it is an amusing diversion and therefore a return to form. [Blu-ray]

January 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment

Some movies go off on tangents. This movie is nothing but tangents.

January 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | Comment (1)
Aisle Seat

RocknRolla is Guy Ritchie trying to out-Guy Ritchie Guy Ritchie. ...enjoy it for what it is and don't worry that it's imitative. (Blu-ray Edition)

January 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

In spite of the film being derivative, RocknRolla is still a lot of fun. At least, what you can understand of it.

January 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Ksanazestameno, alla akomi nostimo, to piato poy soy serbirei einai mia super sized ekdohi tis syntagis toy, me tin idia thermidiki aksia, alla horis tin geystiki apogeiosi tis neas anakalypsis

January 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

Ritchie's latest homoerotic guy bonding homicidal spree, might be termed a London mafia musical fueled by global capitalism's shaky economic indicators, going toe to toe with the underground urban economy's crimelords in cutthroat competition. Literally.

January 15, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comments (4)
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Audience Reviews for RocknRolla

Loved the cinematography and Guy Ritchie's quirky but excellent direction. A lot of fun.

September 25, 2010
Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

RocknRolla is an enjoyable enough film but I think the reason it's so easy to watch is because you've seen it all before, it's like bumping into an old friend. There is absolutely nothing original or profound about it, which I find annoying, but the cast is likable, likable enough for you not to hate it. Easy/lazy

January 13, 2012
SirPant

Super Reviewer

    1. Mumbles: If I could be half the human being Bob is at the cost of being a poof, I'd have to think about it. Not for very long, but I'd have to pause.
    – Submitted by Maria H (2 months ago)
    1. One Two: What... what exactly is it that you... that you want to do to me, then, Bob?
    – Submitted by Maria H (2 months ago)
    1. One Two: I'm going back to bed.
    2. Handsome Bob: Can I come?
    – Submitted by Maria H (2 months ago)
    1. One Two: You are scary good at it!
    2. Handsome Bob: Do you miss it?
    3. One Two: Shut up ,Bob. I 'll slap you.
    – Submitted by Milena K (2 months ago)
    1. Johnny Quid: Don't worry he can't defend himself, he's got no head.
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