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| Starring | Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong |
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| Director | Guy Ritchie |
| Run time | 114 mins |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Drama |
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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
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!?
More lame rubbish from the one hit wonder.
Scottish actor Gerard Butler won't have to face up to his criminal battery charge just yet - his lawyer successfully persuaded a judge to delay the arraignment until next month (Aug09). The 300 hunk was charged in May (09) with attacking a paparazzo outside the Los Angeles premiere of Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla in 2008. Despite the snapper insisting the actor lashed out at him and punched him the mouth, Butler's lawyers claim he was forced to act because the photographer was stalking the star,... Read more