For 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.
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10/31/08
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RocknRolla (2008)
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Reviews Counted:135
Fresh:80
Rotten:55
Average Rating:5.9/10
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
Ritchie the director may have returned to form, but Ritchie the writer is still an amorphous mess.
10/31/08
This is the first of his cartoons to work better as a movie than as a fashion spread.
10/31/08
Top CriticRitchie has brought back that amazingly gritty, yet extremely funny British crime flick that everyone deserves and loves.
10/31/08
Better just to sit back and enjoy RocknRolla for what it is: a fast-paced amoral joyride that’s more interested in the absurdities of violent criminality than the complications of real life.
10/31/08
The words are catchy and the beat keeps you awake, though all of it quickly fades.
10/31/08
For his fifth feature film, Guy Ritchie happily ignores his previous two misfires and goes back to what he does best, making dime-store, knockoff pulp thrillers.
10/31/08
It seems that 'two smoking barrels' was more than enough. Three is pushing it. Or, as the newly-separated spouse Madonna may have said, 'Enough already.'
10/31/08
There's lots of sizzle...but in the end very little to chew on.
10/31/08
Decidedly darker than previous Ritchie offerings, Rocknrolla struts and preens like a chuffed chart-topper with a debilitating drug habit should.
10/31/08
The ensemble cast of his latest is so massive, they can't all be done justice and by the time the story's come to a close it's a bit of an untidy mess, even if all the pieces, technically, have been accounted for.
10/31/08
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10/31/08
Ritchie's characters are glamorous underworld fantasies, but he's incapable of making them resonate; to stand for something.
10/31/08
The film has the sprawl of a hardboiled novel, but without the richness of character that the best of that genre has to offer.
10/31/08
Promoted as a story of 'sex, thugs and rock'n'roll,' this highly stylised mobster movie couldn't even be remotely confused with the real thing.
10/31/08
It is perhaps high time for us to just come out and finally admit to the world that director Guy Ritchie is not a very good filmmaker.
10/31/08
Part of the problem is that the plot is just too cluttered. There are far too many characters and sub-plots jostling for attention.
10/31/08
Guy Ritchie returns to form and whether a homophobe or not (as his soon to be ex-brother-in-law claims), this is the movie of a man who certainly appreciates the male form.
10/30/08
It doesn't offer viewers anything more than the sight of a talented director treading water with a story he seems to have little interest in telling.
10/30/08
... it is kind fun, in a junk-food crime fantasy sort of way.
10/30/08
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