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The scope of the twists and reveals aren't quite as far reaching as Guy Richie's previous films, but it still manages to be another fun movie with great characters. If you liked any of the others, you'll enjoy this one too. Probably the best...
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The scope of the twists and reveals aren't quite as far reaching as Guy Richie's previous films, but it still manages to be another fun movie with great characters. If you liked any of the others, you'll enjoy this one too. Probably the best filmed sex scene in a movie I've seen in a while, too. lol Though the tease kind of made me actually want to see Thandie Newton get nekkid when prior I probably couldn't have cared either way really. :P

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Posted aug 26, 2009 8:05 pm pt

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Doesn't possess the Guy Ritchie brilliance which Snatch. and Lock Stock... had.

It is a good film. But it just lacks the same well-developed story and unblemished acting of Ritchie's past two creditable films, Snatch. and Lock Stock...
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Doesn't possess the Guy Ritchie brilliance which Snatch. and Lock Stock... had.

It is a good film. But it just lacks the same well-developed story and unblemished acting of Ritchie's past two creditable films, Snatch. and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. But I'll try not to compare it to them.

RocknRolla does have an in-depth, interesting story but, for me, fails to accurately tell it to the audience by going off on tangents all the time. I'm not saying it's hard to understand, its just that its all a bit messy in places. I was expecting an all-out-shoot-everybody-you-see crime film but actually I was presented, to my surprise, with a film in which if you miss one line the whole story may be ruined. The acting in some places is a little sketchy, not overly bad, but enough that you can notice it. However, I was impressed with Gerard Butler, you may recall from the film 300, as One Two and also Toby Kebbel, you may recall from Dead Man's Shoes, as Johnny Quid. They both put in excellent performances and made the film a little more creditable.

Overall, I enjoyed RocknRolla and it was well worth the money, but its just when you link it to Guy Ritchie's name that it takes away some of the excellency.

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Posted oct 8, 2008 4:52 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  Ritchie concocts a crime-jungle demimonde that's organically linked to the real world, and it's a damn fun one to visit.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  80
  It's all here: the ingenious, obscenity-laced language, the double crosses that turn into triple crosses, the swaggering characters so in love with themselves. GottaLove RocknRolla!

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  80
  A cleverly constructed, sensationally stylish and often darkly hilarious seriocomic caper.

  by Joe Leydon | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  A sharp comedy as well as a punk-pulp spree. Don't go if you can't handle Brit slang. ("Grass" = informer.)

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  The bottom line is, all these people chase the same money around with the success of doggie tail-biting, and it's a lot of fun, and it's not often in these con films that everybody is conning everybody, and they're all scared to death, and nobody knows which cup the pea is under.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  75
  Though the plot has a few too many holes in it, the sheer fun of RockNRolla makes it easy to overlook such quibbles. Butler will make you forget all about "Sparta."

  by Jenni Miller | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  Although the characters are all cartoons, Ritchie still invests them with enough personality to make them stand out as real people, which is what makes RocknRolla much more involving than your typical Tarantino ripoff.

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  70
  The main problem is that Ritchie keeps playing the same old song. It's a swell tune, and we don't mind hearing it every few years, but we'd welcome another subject in a transposed key. Even the Material Girl tries out fresh material.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  70
  If you're a fan of the early Ritchie comedy-crime thrillers, then this is not only right up your alley, it's a long lost relative returning home.

  by Mark Bell | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  67
  As is the norm for Ritchie, Rocknrolla is also too long, too coolly violent, and too populated by characters who all talk like they've been reading the same pulp novelist.

  by Noel Murray | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  A fast-paced amoral joyride that's more interested in the absurdities of violent criminality (torture by crayfish, anyone?) than the complications of real life.

  by Josh Rosenblatt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  63
  Watching Guy Ritchie's British-underworld farce, RocknRolla, is like being compelled to pay attention to a nonstop rock station you normally use as background while you're doing chores. The words are catchy and the beat keeps you awake, though all of it quickly fades.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  It's fun to see Tom Wilkinson, for instance, with a massive bald spot virtually eating scenery with a knife and fork.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  A well-acted and attitudinal action movie, a return to Ritchie's trademark "Mockney" style, which takes amusing and twisted turns.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  63
  RocknRolla is a kickass crime drama that just doesn't know to quit while it's ahead.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »