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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

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OFCS Rating: 57% Rotten
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