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Movie Overview
Cast
Gerard Butler
Tom Wilkinson
Thandie Newton
Director
Guy Ritchie
MPAA Rating
R - for pervasive language, violence, drug use and brief sexuality
RocknRolla (2008)
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OFCS Rating: 57% Rotten
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"There's no rhyme or reason to 'RocknRolla' -- only the illusion of stuff happening and the absence of something to connect it all together."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
A. J. Hakari
2/5
"An over-long mish-mash of scarcely linked sub-plots..."
Cut Print Review
Anders Wotzke
4/5
"Decidedly darker than previous Ritchie offerings,
Rocknrolla
struts and preens like a chuffed chart-topper with a debilitating drug habit should."
PopMatters
Bill Gibron
B+
"
RocknRolla
is an invigorating, grimly hilarious return to old Ritchie sensibilities, the director mounting a slingshot crime saga with more gravitas and hangdog heroics than previously seen."
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
C
"For all of its cool '60s garage rock and Clash song soundtrack, writer/director Guy Ritchie's latest ode to John Mackenzie "The Long Good Friday" (1979) is a discombobulated and sluggish succession of action set pieces with vaguely interesting characters."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"As a gangster named One Two, Gerard Butler is suitably rough around all his edges."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
3/4
"...the film is often very entertaining and consistently engaging..."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
C+
"You'd think that being married to Madonna, Guy Ritchie would have picked up on the value of occasionally reinventing oneself."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
D
"All posturing and artifice -- not cool or funny, though sometimes scary in its nihilism and flippancy."
Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
2.5/4
"It's long, confusing but is definitely saved with great performances and a tight episodic script..."
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
C
"There's lots of sizzle...but in the end very little to chew on."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
2/4
"RocknRolla often feels more like a parody of a Guy Ritchie film than a real movie."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
4/5
"Stylish, edgy British crime caper for grown-ups."
Common Sense Media
James Rocchi
"Parental Content Review"
Screen It!
Jim Judy
6/10
"In spite of the film being derivative,
RocknRolla
is still a lot of fun. At least, what you can understand of it."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
"The denizens of Guy Ritchie's now-familiar London underworld milieu seem second-string here, even though the writer/director has recruited some new faces."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
John P. McCarthy
3/5
"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"
Movies for the Masses
Joseph Proimakis
C+
"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."
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
4/5
"The hard-man hijinks are straight from the "mockney" gangster playbook (which, to be fair, Ritchie pretty much wrote) and the whole shebang is faux from start to finish, a middle-class fantasy of thug life. But
RocknRolla
is so relentlessly kinetic"
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh
"I'd call it all a parody of cinematic male aggression, except I think it's a parody of a parody of cinematic male aggression..."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
2/4
"Some movies go off on tangents. This movie is nothing
but
tangents."
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
1/4
"Alas, Guy Ritchie seems to have lost even what little touch he once had, his latest a typically convoluted saga about strangely named big- and little-time crooks that's fatally deficient in verve."
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
2/5
"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."
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
3.5/5
"The style and energy, plus the terrifically memorable characters, make it mindlessly good fun."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
B
"A very slick, sophisticated plot with some well-written characters."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
B
""RocknRolla" is fun, ridden with dark humor mixed with violence [but] its near two-hour run time should have been more like 90 minutes."
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
"... it is kind fun, in a junk-food crime fantasy sort of way."
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
4/5
"Guy Ritchie's most jolting, confusing, stimulating and flat-out entertaining picture since Snatch"
Filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell
7/10
"Narrated like a darkly frenetic graphic comic, this is a very, very British film - meaning many mobsters spurt undeceipherable Cockney and the often idiotic street thugs indulge in brutal, even surreal villainy."
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
"Click here to see reviews"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
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