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RocknRolla
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 58 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Crime
Written by: Guy Ritchie
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 8, 2008
DVD: January 27, 2009
Running Time: 114 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive language, violence, drug use and brief sexuality
Starring Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Toby Kebbell, and Jeremy Piven
RocknRolla is a story of sex, thugs and rock 'n roll. The action comedy takes a dangerous ride into high crime and low life in contemporary London, where real estate has supplanted drugs as the biggest market, and criminals are its most enthusiastic entrepreneurs. But for anyone looking to get in - from small-time crook One Two to shady Russian billionaire Uri Obomavich - there's only one man to see: Lenny Cole. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Ritchie concocts a crime-jungle demimonde that's organically linked to the real world, and it's a damn fun one to visit.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
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!
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
A cleverly constructed, sensationally stylish and often darkly hilarious seriocomic caper.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
A sharp comedy as well as a punk-pulp spree. Don't go if you can't handle Brit slang. ("Grass" = informer.)
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
Read Full Review >Premiere Jenni Miller
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."
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
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.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
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.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Mark Bell
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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
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.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It's fun to see Tom Wilkinson, for instance, with a massive bald spot virtually eating scenery with a knife and fork.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
A well-acted and attitudinal action movie, a return to Ritchie's trademark "Mockney" style, which takes amusing and twisted turns.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
RocknRolla is a kickass crime drama that just doesn't know to quit while it's ahead.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Sam Adams
Ritchie whisks you along on a whirlwind tour, but he's not averse to putting on the brakes long enough to admire some of his favorite attractions.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It never generates much interest in its story or affection for its characters, and it's simply not half as funny as it needs to be.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
As punchy and energetic as the first few moments are, the rest of the film quickly falls back into mediocrity.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Like the filmmaking itself, the violence has no passion, no oomph, no sense of real or even feigned purpose.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
On the plus side, the actors - especially Butler and Wilkinson - work overtime to pump some extra life into the self-conscious script.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
This film's got EVERYTHING, although purists might quibble that it lacks any sliver of plausibility or dramatic interest.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
RocknRolla is a copy of a copy of a valuable original, and you know how faint and unintelligible those can be.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
If only RocknRolla's characters were at all believable - even in the context of its own cartoon universe.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Thinking back on watching these performers, I see them mostly as an arrangement of bewildered actors awaiting orders, as if Ritchie hasn't bothered to tell them what he needs them to do. He’d sure make a lousy Mob boss.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
Sum total of scenes that deserved to stay in the final cut: Thandie Newton doing a little shimmying frug.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
Frenetic and self-conscious to the point of tedium.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 58 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Nick R. gave it a10:
Awesome! If you liked Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, or any other good Cockney Gangster Film, you will love this.
Anthony gave it a5:
There's not much new here. Sure, as a film alone it's not bad. There's some cool scenes and funny moments. The style and soundtrack make it all seem very exciting. However, if you've seen any of Mr Ritchie's previous films or the the great movie, Layer Cake, then this just seems jaded. In terms of the plot and characters, you can actually see where he's just lifted existing material (Johnny Quidd is the same as Mickey in Snatch; Lenny is like Bricktop and the bad guy in Layer Cake... I could go on. ) This would not be so bad if it was improving on the earlier films but it isn't. If anything, Ritchie's just getting sloppier. There's rehashed dialogue and a couple of story lines that seem very unnecessary and lack any real conclusion. So overall, this is worth a watch if you fancy some mindless entertainment and liked his earlier work... but don't bother if you're looking for something new.
Rowan F gave it a10:
VS.D, sorry, but go f**k yourself. Rocknrolla may in fact be the EXACT opposite to what you said. If you are considering seeing this film then you MUST do so! It is one of the greatest, most interesting, thrilling, satisfying movies ever. The story has some great unexpected twists and literally kept me on the edge of my seat all the way through, ok so its a little complicated but if you stick with it then you'll love it. The action sequences are awesome and original and I wouldn't swap just one of them for the ALL of the action sequences in Quantom of Solace. Plus the acting and characters are truly superb. All of it comes together to form something so unbelievably amazing that you simply HAVE to see it. Half of these reviewers are talking out of their asses, i'm not even sure we were watching the same movie!
frixos g gave it a5:
Its all following a formula its an expensive object some amount of money several gangster groups that fight for those two there also some other nationality involved so there is a different theme each time what else?oh the drug addict who screwed things up.etc You get the picture.Though i guess would rate it more there weren't any lock stock and 2 smoking barrels or snatch.
caporegime gave it a2:
What happened to guy ritchie? The only thing that made this movie good is the rocknrolla itself, standing in front of the mirror with the clash soundtrack playing, that is the only thing i can remember about this movie. Everything else is human waste.
nate gave it a9:
I like it how so many people say this movie is boring. You would have to be an idiot to even fathom that! its a fast paced action thriller with good action and well crafted humor. Excited to see the next installment!!!!
[Anonymous] gave it a3:
Not completely bad, but could use the subtitle "Kinda like Snatch but not nearly as good". I winced at Tom Wilkinson's speech about the crayfish, it was basically lifted from Bricktop's speech about pigs in Snatch. At least Jason Statham wasn't in this one playing the same character he plays in every. single. film. Still, a boring rehash that feels about 5 to 10 years old, when films and tv shows about gangsters were cool. Let's face it --gangsters are pretty played at this point. Your time is better spent on his first two films, and, Guy, rather than making the promised sequel/s, why dont you try something new?
