RocknRolla (2008)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 144
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 59
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.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 27 | 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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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
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Cast
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Gerard Butler
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Tom Wilkinson
Lenny Cole -
Thandie Newton
Stella -
Mark Strong
Archy -
Idris Elba
Mumbles -
Tom Hardy
Handsome Bob -
Karel Roden
Uri Obamavich -
Toby Kebbell
Johnny Quid -
Jeremy Piven
Roman -
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
Mickey -
Jimi Mistry
Councillor -
Matt King
Cookie -
Nonso Anozie
Tank -
Gemma Arterton
June -
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All Critics (151) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (60) | DVD (12)
This is a wonderful movie.
Guns, gangsters, and Richie's unique style and tone make his latest picture just plain fun.
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.
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.
RocknRolla is a recovery from the knockout blows of his past two films but Ritchie is certainly retreading familiar thematic territory.
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.
It's all about the set-up and not the actual payoff.
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.
An over-long mish-mash of scarcely linked sub-plots...
'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.
A self conscious re-working of Guy Ritchie's now familiar style and storyworld.
It's long, confusing but is definitely saved with great performances and a tight episodic script...
Breaks no new ground for movies or for Ritchie, but it is an amusing diversion and therefore a return to form. [Blu-ray]
Some movies go off on tangents. This movie is nothing but tangents.
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)
In spite of the film being derivative, RocknRolla is still a lot of fun. At least, what you can understand of it.
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
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.
Audience Reviews for RocknRolla
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- 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.
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- Handsome Bob: You heard me, do as you're told.
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- Archy: You'll never sing the same if your teeth ain't your own.
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- 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.
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- One Two: What... what exactly is it that you... that you want to do to me, then, Bob?
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- One Two: I'm going back to bed.
- Handsome Bob: Can I come?
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