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11/10/08
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RocknRolla (2008)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:19
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Oct 8, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $5,665,302
Synopsis: Guy Ritchie returns to form with this cockney crime caper starring Gerard Butler and Tom Wilkinson. Lenny Cole (Wilkinson) is a bungling London crime boss who calls the shots in London's... [More]
Starring: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven
Director: Guy Ritchie
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Reviews for RocknRolla
Top CriticGuns, gangsters, and Richie's unique style and tone make his latest picture just plain fun.
11/10/08
Top CriticRitchie, 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.
10/31/08
Top CriticStyle 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.
10/31/08
Top CriticAs 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.
10/31/08
Top CriticFlashy 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.
10/31/08
Top CriticA handsome ensemble of blokes and one high-heeled accountant who propel this slam-bang romp about the collision of criminal styles in the age of globalization and real estate speculation.
10/31/08
Top CriticFor all its hipster posturing, fast cutting, and camera tricks, this tale of chicanery is peculiarly arid and brittle, without a single character worth caring about.
10/31/08
Top CriticThis is the first of his cartoons to work better as a movie than as a fashion spread.
10/31/08
Top CriticIt's a sad experience to watch RocknRolla, the obituary for the Guy Ritchie brand of English gangster flicks.
10/30/08
Top CriticRocknRolla isn't as jammed with visual pyrotechnics as Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Smoking Barrel (1998), but that's OK, because with anything more happening, the movie could induce motion sickness.
10/30/08
Top CriticRocknRolla, though not the most original movie ever made, is a blast, an adrenaline rush of punked-out rock-and-roll-fueled action and crime.
10/30/08
Top CriticRitchie is back on comfortable, familiar footing here with this story of British gangsters who are so busy trying to screw each other over, they don't realize that they're in over their heads.
10/29/08
Top CriticIf RocknRolla clings to the company of ne’er-do-wells, it’s not because they bristle with the frustrations of society, but purely because Ritchie wants to borrow their cheeky charm -- a virtue that, in reality, none of them possess.
10/13/08
Top CriticSometimes it amounts to a laugh or two.
10/10/08
Top CriticGreat title for a gangster flick. Too bad that writer-director Guy Ritchie only partially realizes the sizzling potential.
10/10/08
Top CriticThe actual plot is so uselessly convoluted you'd get a headache just reading it -- but you might want to pull out the Advil anyway, given Ritchie's reliance on flashy editing, a blasting soundtrack and fetishized gunplay.
10/10/08
Top CriticRitchie whisks you along on a whirlwind tour, but he's not averse to putting on the brakes long enough to admire some of his favorite attractions.
10/10/08
Top CriticIf, as his critics contend, Ritchie is just making the same movie over and over again, at least he's getting better at it.
10/10/08
Top CriticRocknRolla is a well-acted and attitudinal action movie, a return to Ritchie's trademark 'Mockney' style, which takes amusing and twisted turns.
10/09/08
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