It does contain exactly two memorable scenes...but the rest of RocknRolla is one identical scene after another where one guy tries to out badass the other guy.
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11/03/08
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.
Theatrical Release:05-09-2008
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
Reviews for RocknRolla
Welcome back, Mr. Ritchie. I missed your work when you were, you know, Swept Away into an uncomfortable filmmaking zone.
11/03/08
The dialogue is crisp and the performances pop with energy.
11/03/08
"RocknRolla" is fun, ridden with dark humor mixed with violence [but] its near two-hour run time should have been more like 90 minutes.
11/02/08
RocknRolla is pure Guy Ritchie. All style and not even a pretense of substance.
11/01/08
You don't just watch a Guy Ritchie movie. They are to be experienced. Some circles consider his films more of an assault on the senses than exploration of plot.
10/31/08
It's a nice diversion and if you're not one of those people whoholds grudges about other people's unfulfilled potential ("Why is Guy Ritchie wasting his time - and ours - by making the same movie again and again?"), you might find yourself entertained.
10/31/08
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.
10/31/08
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.
10/31/08
If RocknRolla is to be trusted, the director is relying less on his old bag of tricks and more on his expanding abilities as a storyteller -- not just a story stylist.
10/31/08
RocknRolla never feels like it's building to anything, and when we get to the end, we discover it wasn't, in fact, building to anything.
10/31/08
RocknRolla is a recovery from the knockout blows of his past two films but Ritchie is certainly retreading familiar thematic territory.
10/31/08
It's wincingly dated, playing like a Cockney remake of Pulp Fiction, with no new ideas and so cartoonish in style that it's difficult to emotionally connect with anything that's going on.
10/31/08
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.
10/31/08
Guy Ritchie makes films like Elmore Leonard writes novels.
10/31/08
This exuberant exercise in pretzel-plotted crime capers is a ridiculously entertaining piece of nonsense, devoid of all the attempts at psychological complexity and philosophical navel-gazing that bogged down Revolver.
10/31/08
Flashy 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
A 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
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.
10/31/08
Ritchie the director may have returned to form, but Ritchie the writer is still an amorphous mess.
10/31/08
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