| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

RocknRolla feels as if Ritchie is imitating his favourite director here, and that director is Guy Ritchie.

| Nov 7, 2008

For a while you go along for the ride. But as the film progresses it becomes increasingly unwieldy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 7, 2008

Ritchie, who shoots and cuts everything in RocknRolla like an ad for a particularly greasy brand of fragrance for men, delivers the beatings and killings in his trademark atmosphere of morally weightless flash.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2008

Style is what RocknRolla is all about. And it has it in spades, from the cockney Pulp Fiction dialogue to the music-video editing of the rambling narrative.

| Oct 31, 2008

RocknRolla is a recovery from the knockout blows of his past two films but Ritchie is certainly retreading familiar thematic territory.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 31, 2008

As in other Ritchie films, 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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 31, 2008

Flashy but assured, the film is a controlled exercise in style that toes the line but never feels over-the-top. In a word, RocknRolla rocks.

| Original Score: B | Oct 31, 2008

A handsome ensemble of blokes and one high-heeled accountant who propel this slam-bang romp about the collision of criminal styles in the age of globalization and real estate speculation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2008

For all its hipster posturing, fast cutting, and camera tricks, this tale of chicanery is peculiarly arid and brittle, without a single character worth caring about.

| Oct 31, 2008

Ritchie the director may have returned to form, but Ritchie the writer is still an amorphous mess.

| Oct 31, 2008

This is the first of his cartoons to work better as a movie than as a fashion spread.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 31, 2008

Better just to sit back and enjoy RocknRolla for what it is: a fast-paced amoral joyride that's more interested in the absurdities of violent criminality than the complications of real life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2008

It is perhaps high time for us to just come out and finally admit to the world that director Guy Ritchie is not a very good filmmaker.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2008

Part of the problem is that the plot is just too cluttered. There are far too many characters and sub-plots jostling for attention.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 31, 2008

RocknRolla isn't as jammed with visual pyrotechnics as Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Smoking Barrel (1998), but that's OK, because with anything more happening, the movie could induce motion sickness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2008

RocknRolla, though not the most original movie ever made, is a blast, an adrenaline rush of punked-out rock-and-roll-fueled action and crime.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2008

Ritchie is back on comfortable, familiar footing here with this story of British gangsters who are so busy trying to screw each other over, they don't realize that they're in over their heads.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2008

It's a step back to basics and an assured return to form for Ritchie, leaving the viewer marvelling afresh about how a director this confident could have produced Swept Away and Revolver.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

If RocknRolla clings to the company of ne'er-do-wells, it's not because they bristle with the frustrations of society, but purely because Ritchie wants to borrow their cheeky charm -- a virtue that, in reality, none of them possess.

| Oct 13, 2008