RocknRolla Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A well-acted and attitudinal action movie, a return to Ritchie's trademark "Mockney" style, which takes amusing and twisted turns.Read the full review
As punchy and energetic as the first few moments are, the rest of the film quickly falls back into mediocrity.Read the full review
A cleverly constructed, sensationally stylish and often darkly hilarious seriocomic caper.Read the full review
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 the full review
Like the filmmaking itself, the violence has no passion, no oomph, no sense of real or even feigned purpose.Read the full review
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 the full review
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 the full review
Ritchie concocts a crime-jungle demimonde that's organically linked to the real world, and it's a damn fun one to visit.Read the full review
RocknRolla is a kickass crime drama that just doesn't know to quit while it's ahead.Read the full review
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 the full review