RocknRolla (2008)

All Critics (151) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (60) | DVD (12)

This is a wonderful movie.

November 10, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

Top Critic

Guns, gangsters, and Richie's unique style and tone make his latest picture just plain fun.

November 10, 2008 Full Review

Ben Lyons

At the Movies

Top Critic

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 | Comments (2)

Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

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

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

RocknRolla is a recovery from the knockout blows of his past two films but Ritchie is certainly retreading familiar thematic territory.

October 31, 2008 Full Review

Ted Fry

Seattle Times

Top Critic

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

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

It's all about the set-up and not the actual payoff.

December 17, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ryan Cracknell

Movie Views

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

Sonny Bunch

Washington Times

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

August 1, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Anders Wotzke

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 | Comments (7)

Clay Cane

BET.com

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

March 24, 2009 Full Review

Simon Weaving

Screenwize

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

February 13, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

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

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

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

January 28, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Mike McGranaghan

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

John J. Puccio

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

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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January 20, 2009 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

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 | Comments (6)

Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

• 1. Archy: People ask the question... what's a RocknRolla? And I tell 'em - it's not about drums, drugs, and hospital drips, oh no. There's more there than that, my friend. We all like a bit of the good life - some the money, some the drugs, others the sex game, the glamour, or the fame. But a RocknRolla, oh, he's different. Why? Because a real RocknRolla wants the fucking lot.
  – Submitted by Johonna D (7 months ago)
• 1. Handsome Bob: You heard me, do as you're told.
  – Submitted by Sam E (8 months ago)
• 1. Archy: You'll never sing the same if your teeth ain't your own.
  – Submitted by Tomas K (8 months ago)
• 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 (14 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 (14 months ago)
• 1. One Two: I'm going back to bed.
  2. Handsome Bob: Can I come?
  – Submitted by Maria H (14 months ago)

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