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cinemajesty Movie Review: "RocknRolla" (2008)Some entertainment that is, Director Guy Ritchie takes his original script about inner city criminals shifting a never revealed considered to be lost painting in between the Russian Mafia and funloving Music Gig managers, filling the movie with an extraordinary ensemble cast in playing-mode going out from charismatic actor Gerard Butler as the close to bi-sexual character of One Two and driven force, gentleman king-pin playing actor Tom Wilkinson through an uneventful-shot movie with strong color palette and some contrasty lighting on balanced locations, but to no camera motion, bringing it all down to the supporting character performances sharing in from Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy, Idris Elba and another in-given not fully up to task to be the "RocknRolla" actor Toby Kebbell, who has some strong beats with piercing eyes and pencil, yet does not own the role of Johnny Quid, which makes the movie produced by Joel Silver before him and director Guy Ritchie took on more serious business with the two fulfilling "Sherlock Holmes" genre variations at Warner Bros. Pictures working from season 2008/2009 to Winter 2011.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

TonyMontana96 (Originally seen in 2016) Guy Ritchie is just retracing his footsteps here, but what makes this a terrible film and not just a bad one, is the forced Hollywood diversity, involving a homosexual storyline, this story is boring, pointless and cheap. I am sick and tired of forced topics that are not in the slightest entertaining. The performances are stupid, especially Thandie Newton as an emotionless songwriter and the dialogue is recycled or laughable and the pacing is a mess. The film was so slow I only got to the 45 or so minute mark before exiting. Overall Guy Ritchie's last impressive film came out 8 years prior to this and I think he's finished, this film is unoriginal, terribly written, and fairly unwatchable. 0/10

jimbo-53-186511 I'll give Guy Ritchie some credit and I'm prepared to accept that this is certainly a handsome and stylish looking film, and, to an extent is also fairly well put together. However, that's probably about the best I can say for it to be honest...The set-up for the story opens with promise and as expected we're bearing witness to a twisting, turning narrative complete with one or two surprises to follow later in the film. Despite the promising set-up though it's actually surprising how uninvolving this film is as a whole. Essentially it's a rather humourless tale complete with rather shallow characters who share little rapport or chemistry. I think a combination of flat characterisation and a pedestrian script are perhaps the biggest contributors to this film being a bit of a snore-fest. Whilst Ritchie weaves all the strands of the story together well he does occasionally get side-tracked with pointless and dumb plot elements (such as the two junkies flogging items and Tom Hardy's character being gay). The slapping scene is another example of a moderately amusing gag being stretched rather thin and again seemed to add unnecessary running time to the picture. I couldn't help but feel that this is another 90 minute film that's been painfully stretched to nearly 120 minutes which perhaps explains why I found large parts of the film to be rather boring.Looking at RockNRolla in 2016 it's interesting to see the likes of Tom Hardy and Idris Elba before they hit the big time and whilst Tom Hardy was actually very good here sadly Idris Elba didn't make the same impact - although I'd put more of the blame on Guy Ritchie for underusing Elba and giving him nothing to do. Tom Wilkinson is good fun as mob boss Lenny Cole but he gives a rather hammy performance which wears thin and stops becoming fun by the time we reach the second half of the picture. Mark Strong is solid as Cole's loyal right-hand man and Toby Kebbell is also amusing here but isn't really given enough screen time to make the necessary impact.Having enjoyed both Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch I did have high hopes for RockNRolla and expected more of the same, and whilst Guy Ritchie admirably weaves all the strands of the story together well he does it all in a rather humourless and dull manner making this film something of a yawner.

Semisonic When one says "Guy Ritchie's cult film", they usually mean either Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Snatch. No wonder. These films defined Ritchie as a world-famous director, and since they both found their way to the IMDb Top 250, apparently the audience loves them too.I saw those films, and they are without a doubt a high class cinema. Yet it is RocknRolla that i truly fell in love with. And there's a reason for that. You see, Guy Ritchie might be a god, but not an almighty one. His field is called "criminal comedy", this is the genre which he rules. And when it comes to criminal comedies, there are two things that are the most important - the criminal part and the comedic one. And while to some it might seem like an easy thing - "just shoot and make jokes" - in fact it's not that simple. Crimes are essentially bad from the regular people's point of view, and to be believable they do have to look serious. But serious things don't make people laugh, especially when it comes to robbing or killing people. So keeping all the grimy details but serving them in a way so that the audience takes them with a light-hearted smile is a real art.I think Guy Ritchie wasn't always a true wizard of his craft. His skills and tricks needed some time and practice to hone. And while his earlier films had the advantage of freshness, which is probably why they are so highly rated by people, they lacked a certain subtlety and technical perfection. Both Lock Stock and Snatch had their not-so-brilliant moments when they were losing the pace or were getting a bit too dramatic to be fun. It might mean more versatility, but when you have a particular genre to tend to, versatility at the cost of breaking out of it isn't always a good thing.Enter RocknRolla. A traditionally intricate and ingenious story about the people of the under- and upper world and the incredible coincidences that bring them together. It's pointless to describe what exactly happens in Ritchie's movies, since it's not the plot that makes a difference, it's the little episodes and details. And in this film our master shows himself as a real genius. To me, there was no single unnecessary scene or character, no single miss of intonation. This is a long film - almost two hours - and during all this time it never makes you feel bored or sad. And this is exactly the kind of magic we expect Guy Ritchie to cast on us, right? The only downside i could find in this film is that its main twist was sorta taken from another British crime comedy, Layer Cake, a film that tries its best to look as if it was made by Ritchie, but it isn't. It's not that much of a disappointment, since these movies are totally different in all the other details and the overall delivery, but it kinda undermines the creative genius of Guy Ritchie who, given four years between these two films, could've come up with some other equally fitting trick from up his sleeve.Other than that, RocknRolla is the best i have seen from Guy Ritchie so far, and probably the best criminal comedy there is. Perfectly polished, perfectly balanced and perfectly delivered. And it's simply too bad that Butler, Elba, Hardy and the other principal actors don't see it fit for themselves to take on the sequel that was promised. Because nothing they have done ever since is even close in either style or substance to RocknRolla (Hardy's Warrior is the exception that only proves the rule), and it's simply unfair to make the fans wait for so long.