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RocknRolla
2008
London's criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster's shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs. Read more
| Starring | Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong |
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| Director | Guy Ritchie |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Comedy |
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RocknRolla
London's criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster's shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs.
| Starring | Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Toby Kebbell, Jeremy Piven, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges |
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| Director | Guy Ritchie |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 54 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 54 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Hot Hits, 100 Most Wanted |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Comedy |
| Language | English, English Audio Description |
| Released | DVD: 02 Feb 2009 Blu-ray: 02 Feb 2009 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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Wrong-footed by the new credit-crunch zeitgeist, but with recovered fluency after the hiccups of Revolver and... read more on Time Out
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97 out of 104 people found this review helpful
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Disappointing - A parody of itself
This film wouldn't be too bad if we hadn't seen it all before, and done a whole lot better. The characters are one dimensional, the script is like listening to someone read the Cockney Rhyming Slang dictionary out loud and the story is a bit thin with some very loose ends. I felt the plot was spoon fed to the audience, which is necessary for Amiericans but Mr Ritchie should really give his English audience a bit more credit.
20 minutes into the film I was still forcing myself to enjoy it, but by that point the script had just become laughable and I started to mock the mockney. They kept forcing this notion of a 'RocknRolla' into the plot but it just felt like such a mad up piece of crap that you couldn't take any of it seriously. I left disappointed. More so that they plan on making a sequel with the same characters. Why oh why would you bother!? -
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
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Rolls along fine but rarely rocks...
Following on from what you would expect from a Ritchie film this employes regular East end boi's in a regular East End Bois film. This time Russian looks to buy big in London (anyone notice the extremely uncanny Abramovich look and football link) and has to deal with the local London Mr big to oil the wheels, but in the process gets (mmmm its getting thinner) ripped off que internal rifts big Russian minders and the odd obligatory shoot out yes there are few real surprises in what is still quite an entertaining film with an excellent last 20 minutes, it just takes a bus route really to get there. All in all we like Ritchie, we love his characters, and we like his films, but if you were expecting the Uzi the previews promise in this, you just about get a spud gun. Definately worth a watch all the same.
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Ritchie's RocknRolla movie 'in jeopardy'
- 15 Aug 2008
The future Guy Ritchie's new film RocknRolla is reportedly in question after it emerged that it may not get a release in the US. According to reports, Warner Bros are not confident that the movie will find favour with American audiences and are considering dropping the project. Starring Thandie Newton, Gerard Butler and Gemma Arteton, the film tells the story of London gangsters who are trying to get in a property scam. Warner Bros. president Alan Horn told the Daily Mirror: "It's a well-ma Read more
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