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RocknRolla

RocknRolla (Rock N Rolla)

2008

Guy Ritchie

Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton, Mark Strong ...

7.1

55,656

Thriller. Action London's criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster's shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs. RocknRolla is a story of sex, thugs and rock ‘n roll. The film 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. With millions up for grabs, all of London’s ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"A cleverly constructed, sensationally stylish and often darkly hilarious seriocomic caper."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Guns N’ Poses (...) Like the filmmaking itself, the violence has no passion, no oomph, no sense of real or even feigned purpose."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Great title for a gangster flick. Too bad that writer-director Guy Ritchie only partially realizes the sizzling potential. (...) A kickass crime drama that just doesn't know to quit while it's ahead. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"British actors love playing gangsters as much as American actors love playing cowboys, and it's always nice to see people having fun (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jason Solomons The Guardian	"Soon enough 'RocknRolla' reveals itself to be a hollow pose rather than a film (...) There's no humour and no sympathetic characters in a black hole of tedium"	NEG
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Accessible and enjoyable (...) The film is done with visual panache"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"[It] is all tangled subplots, most of them going nowhere slowly (...) This stuff may not earn Ritchie top marks for enlightenment, but it's certainly quite funny"	NEU
United Kingdom	Damon Wise Empire	"A kinetic, funny, well-cast crime caper, 'RocknRolla' proves Ritchie is still the lord of his manor (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"Too long, too coolly violent, and too populated by characters who all talk like they've been reading the same pulp novelist. The movie contains a few exciting, visceral sequences"	NEU
United States	Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader	"Frenetic and self-conscious to the point of tedium (...) This tale of chicanery is peculiarly arid and brittle, without a single character worth caring about."	NEG

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